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oom p halos

From the Greek

…sorry, it’s om not oom.

…the wordplay and enumeration does suggest it should be oom though.

I’ve never seen it with a double o at the start. Which is why I went with omphaloid for “in the navel”. But on reflection I think light rings are meant to be halos, so I think oom-p-halos is the correct parsing. Unfortunately it seems to lead to a non-existent word

This one seems to be a bit of a mish-mash, hash! My big (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary) says Omphalos means 1. a boss on a shield, 2. a stone in the themple...and 3, figuratively a central point. The 'navel' doesn't get a mention other than in words beginning Omphalo (-omphalitis, omphalocele etc) and in Omphaloid, resembling the navel. Other than that, of course, we have the word here beginning Oom...

Thanks quisling, jono and swarbrules. I would have never got the word without your help despite having MOO reversed as OOM. But from the dictionary I could not get anyword starting with OOM except Oomycetes.

Please help me in parsing / solving this cryptic clue -
"Wild beast in Rome location, say? Not clear (7,2,2,4)"

The first three words are an anagram of three words from the clue, the last word is a homonym indicated by 'say'

Hi Bharat, was ‘oomphalos’ confirmed as correct and was any explanation given?

Thanks getting for the help. It remains to be seen whether I got it right . Thanks