a spiral bandage formed by a series of overlapping figure-of-eight turns
2. botany another word for spike2 (sense 1)
Word origin
C15: from Latin: ear of corn
Spica in British English
(ˈspiːkə)
noun
the brightest star in the constellation Virgo. Distance: 260 light years
spica in American English
(ˈspaɪkə)
noun
1. Word forms: pluralˈspicae (ˈspaɪsi) Botany
a spike, as of a flower
2. Medicine
a kind of bandage wrapped back and forth with spiral overlapping around parts of a joint
3. [S-]
a binary star, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo: magnitude, 1.0, but it varies regularly by a magnitude of 0.1 as the fainter star eclipses its brighter companion