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| —n , pl -cae, -cas | |
| 1. | med a spiral bandage formed by a series of overlapping figure-of-eight turns |
| 2. | botany another word for spike |
| [C15: from Latin: ear of corn] | |
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Spicae
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| Spica (ˈspiːkə) | |
| —n | |
| the brightest star in the constellation Virgo. Distance: 260 light years | |
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Word Origin & History
Spica
1728, bright star in constellation Virgo, from L., lit. "ear of grain," corresponding to Gk. stakhys (see spike (n.1)).
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Spica  (spī'kə) Pronunciation Key
A bright bluish-white binary star in the constellation virgo, with an apparent magnitude of 0.96. Scientific name: Alpha Virginis. |
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