bindi
noun
Meaning
- The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of married Hindu women.
- Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot.
- The common lawn weed, Soliva sessilis, introduced to Australia from South America.
- A seed of this plant, having small sharp spines which stick painfully into bare feet.
- Any of a number of plants of the genus Calotis which have small burrs with fine barbed awns.
- Any of a various plants of the genus Sclerolaena.
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