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spicae |
1 definition found 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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