English Explanatory Dictionary

spica

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A spike (kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis).
  2. A spur.
  3. A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.
name
  1. A binary star in the constellation Virgo; alpha (α) Virginis.

Word forms

spica spicas spicae

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin spica.

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