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spica

spica noun: a spike (kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis).

Noun

spica (plural spicas or spicae)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Spica

Spica

  1. 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.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921

spica meaning in Tamil

spica in Tamil

உணவு மண ஊட்டிகள், ஒட்டுருவக்கட்டி, கதிர்க்கட்டு, கறிமணப் பொருள்கள், பட்டி

Forms of spica

pluralspicas
pluralspicae

Origin of spica

Learned borrowing from Latin spica.

From Latin spīca virginis (“Virgo's ear of grain”).

Questions about spica

What does spica mean?
Spica means a spike (kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis).
What is spica in Tamil?
Spica in Tamil is உணவு மண ஊட்டிகள், ஒட்டுருவக்கட்டி, கதிர்க்கட்டு. See Spica meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is spica?
Spica can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of spica?
The plural of spica is spicas.

Words near spica in the dictionary

  1. Spiby
  2. spic
  3. spic and span
  4. spic-and-span
  5. spic-speak
  6. spica
  7. spicae
  8. spical
  9. Spicanese
  10. spicas
  11. spicataside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spica (page history and authors); Spica (page history and authors); spica (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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