Spica

·noun A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.

II. Spica ·noun 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.

spica
spīca, ae (vulg. spēca: rustici, ut acceperunt antiquitus, vocant specam, Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 2.—Neut...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
spica
spīca ae, f SPI-, a point, ear, spike : seges spicis uberibus: Cererem in spicis intercipit, O.—Pr...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
spica
, or α virginis. The lucida of Virgo, a standard nautical star. ...

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