spica
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noun
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A spike (kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis).
2
A spur.
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A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.
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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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