Meaning of નાળ in English
- A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.
- Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.
- A bernicle goose.
- An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
- Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
- A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated.
- The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel.
- An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
- The hilum.
- A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
- Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
- One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
- A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
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