Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spica"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Spica
n : the brightest star in Virgo [syn: {Spica}]
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