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spicae


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spica  \Spi"ca\,  n.;  pl  {Spic[ae]}.  [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. 




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