umˈbilicated, a.
[f. as prec. + -ed.]
Having a depression like the navel; umbilicate. (Chiefly in special applications: see quots.)
| a. 1698 W. King tr. Sorbière's Journ. Lond. 15 He show'd me, likewise, a great Rummer of two Quarts..: I found that the foot of the latter was more Vmbilicated than the former. |
| b. Bot. 1693 Phil. Trans. XVII. 928 The Fourth Section contains such Trees and Shrubs as have an Umbilicated Fruit. 1725 Sloane Jamaica II. 76 To that follows many crown'd or umbilicated berries. 1756 P. Browne Jamaica 203 The larger Colts-foot, with umbilicated leaves. 1771 Duchess of Portland Let. in Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. Ser. ii. (1862) I. 359, I fancy I left the umbilicated lichen at Ilam. 1845 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) VI. 196 The plant..is at first rotund, in age becoming more oblong, umbilicated at the top. |
| c. Conch. 1776 Da Costa Elem. Conchol. x. 202 The umbilicated whitish thin Snail. 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 155 The columella umbilicated and slightly grooved at its base. 1851 S. P. Woodward Mollusca i. 100 The axis of the shell, around which the whorls are coiled, is sometimes open or hollow; in which case, the shell is said to be perforated, or umbilicated. 1880 Linn. Soc. Jrnl. XV. 95 Shell high, conical, tectiform, carinated, umbilicated, with a flattish depressedly conical base. |
| d. Ent. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 190 Black, shining, impressed-punctate, cicatriculose; the punctures umbilicated, the umbilici perforate. 1826 Kirby & Spence Entomol. III. 509 In Fulgora Diadema they [stemmata] are also umbilicated, but the umbilicus is circular. |
| e. Path. and Anat. 1834 Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 738/2 This central depression, or umbilicated form of vesicle (as it is sometimes called), is very characteristic of small-pox. 1877 Coues Fur Anim. i. 13 At each side of this fossa..is found an umbilicated papilla. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 519 A pustular rash,..but without umbilicated pustules. |