"mehndi" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 53:",
          "text": "She was thirteen, a young bride whose small palms had been stained burgundy with mehndi for a man she knew nothing about, not even his name.",
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        "(chiefly South Asia, countable) A henna plant (Lawsonia inermis) or (uncountable) a preparation of this used for dyeing."
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