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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spica \Spi"ca\, noun; 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Spica
noun: the brightest star in Virgo
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