spica

spica
/spuy"keuh/, n., pl. spicae /-see/, spicas for 1, 2.
1. spike2.
2. a type of bandage in the shape of a figure eight, extending from an extremity to the trunk.
3. (cap.) Astron. a first-magnitude star in the constellation Virgo.
[1350-1400; ME < L spica lit., ear of grain; cf. SPIKE2]

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▪ star
(Latin: Head of Grain),also called  Alpha Virginis,  

      brightest star in the zodiacal constellation Virgo and one of the 15 brightest in the entire sky, having an apparent visual magnitude of 0.98. It is a bluish star; spectroscopic examination reveals Spica to be a binary with a four-day period, its two components being of the first and third magnitudes, respectively. Spica lies about 260 light-years from the Earth.

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