adjective
- having a navel-like depression or hollow in the center
Usage: technical; botanical
Examples
- The umbilicate leaves had distinctive central depressions.
- Many mushroom caps are umbilicate in shape.
- The botanist noted the umbilicate structure of the flower.
- Umbilicate shells show a characteristic inward curve.
- The fossil displayed an umbilicate surface pattern.
- Scientists identified the umbilicate formation in the rock.