Spica \Spi"ca\, n.; pl. {Spicae}. [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.
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2. (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the
constellation Virgo.
[1913 Webster] Spicate