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Spica   Listen
noun
Spica  n.  (pl. spicae)  
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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"Spica" Quotes from Famous Books



... first by a whisker, it seems, but Aldebaran II was so close a second that it was a photo finish, and all the channels have been jammed ever since. Canopus, Vega, Rigel, Spica. They all want you. Everybody, from Alsakan to Vandemar and back. We told them right off that we would not receive personal delegations—we had to almost throw a couple of pink-haired Chickladorians out bodily to make them believe that we meant ...
— The Vortex Blaster • Edward Elmer Smith


Words linked to "Spica" :   Virgo, star


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