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spica¹

noun spicas · spicae

  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.

Spica²

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From Latin spīca virginis (“Virgo's ear of grain”).

proper noun

  1. A binary star in the constellation Virgo; alpha (α) Virginis. The constellation Virgo is a Y-shaped group, of which α, the star at the foot, is the well-known Spica, a star of the first magnitude.

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中文角宿一 Jiǎosùyī
ΕλληνικάΣτάχυς Stáchys
РусскийСпи́ка Spíka

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@misc{spica_2026,
  title = {spica},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spica},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}