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Spica

Spica Meaning & Definition
Spica Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Spica?

[n] the brightest star in Virgo

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Spica In Webster's Dictionary

\Spi"ca\, n.; pl. {Spic[ae]}. [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. 2. (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.

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