spica in English

noun
1
a bandage folded into a spiral arrangement resembling an ear of wheat or barley.
Current treatment for this type of fracture is a thumb spica , but some evidence suggests that the thumb could be omitted from the cast.
noun
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the brightest star in the constellation Virgo.

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1. The two most fortune stars in the sky, Spica and Arcturus, are very close in longitude

2. The bright star near the moon tonight is Spica in the constellation Virgo. Sentencedict.com

3. Synonyms for Cataplasm include dressing, plaster, poultice, bandage, band-aid, covering, Elastoplast, compress, gauze and spica

4. Initial sales were poor, but in 1976 Unilever bought out Spica and began a mass-marketing campaign throughout Europe.

5. While Spica is sweet and innocent, Arcturus is more apt at dealing with the darker aspects of life on earth.

6. Data on reproductive and vegetative weights of individuals from five species of agricultural weeds (Apera spica-venti L., Datura stramonium L., Abutilon theophrasti Medic., Sorghum halepense (L.)

7. After reading a review of over three dozen converter boxes by Consumer Reports, your correspondent picked a Spica AT 2018 for one of his superannuated television sets.

8. 27 For example, Chhu Yuan says in his -4th century Thien Wen (Questions about the Heavens), 'When Spica (Virginis) is rising just before dawn, where is the great Luminary (the Sun) hiding himself?

9. • Aspic is a dish consisting of a clear savoury meat jelly, containing fowl, game • Savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables • A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil

10. Arcturus, designation α Boötis (Latinized to Alpha Boötis, abbreviated Alpha Boo, α Boo), is the brightest star in the constellation of Boötes, the fourth-brightest in the night sky, and the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere.Together with Spica and Denebola (or Regulus, depending on the source), Arcturus is part of the Spring Triangle asterism and, by extension, also of the