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Pica

Pica Meaning & Definition
Pica Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pica?

[n] eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency
[n] magpies
[n] a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pica: em | genus Pica | geophagia | geophagy | pica em

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See Also | bird genus | Corvidae | eating | en | family Corvidae | feeding | in | inch | linear unit | magpie | nut | point

Pica In Webster's Dictionary

\Pi"ca\, n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. {Pie} magpie.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) The genus that includes the magpies. 2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia. 3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See {Pie}. [Obs.] 4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English. Note: This line is printed in pica Note: Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica, two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like. {Small pica} (Print.), a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica. Note: This line is printed in small pica

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