Definition of "bindi" [bindi]

• The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of married Hindu women. (noun)
• Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot. (noun)
• A tiny, sharp-needled seed often found on the ground in the bush. (noun)

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• "In a sermon in Banaras (Varanasi), he symbolised it by giving her the mark of the bindu (O, i.e. a drop or a dot in form of a circle) now called bindi, to married woman."
• "It's a super summer crop and grows best where it's sultry -- Africa, India (where it's known as bindi, or lady fingers), the Middle East, Turkey and Greece (where they all call it bamia) the Caribbean, South America -- and in the American South."
• "January 2009, she sported a "bindi" (vermillion mark on forehead) during her trip to India when she also visited Taj Mahal with husband Danny Moder."