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Webster 1913 Edition
Spica
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Spi′ca
,Noun.
pl.
Spicae
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. [L., an ear, as of corn.]
1.
(Med.)
A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; – so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
2.
(Astron.)
A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.