Kali

Ka·li  (käl)

n. Hinduism

One of the manifestations and cult titles of the wife of Shiva and mother goddess Devi, especially in her malevolent role as a goddess of death and destruction, depicted as black, red-eyed, blood-stained, and wearing a necklace of skulls.

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[Sanskrit Kl, from kl, feminine of kla-, dark, of Dravidian origin; akin to Kannada ku, black, blackness.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	kali - bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash barilla, glasswort, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	2.	Kali - wife of Siva and malevolent form of Devi; "the black"