spica Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the brightest star in Virgo

WordNet

Spi"ca noun
Etymology
L., an ear, as of corn.
Wordforms
plural Spicæ
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913