Crossword clues for spica
spica
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spica \Spi"ca\, n.; pl. Spic[ae]. [L., an ear, as of corn.]
(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.
(Astron.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1728, bright star in constellation Virgo, from Latin, literally "ear of grain" (see spike (n.2)); corresponding to Greek stakhys. As the ancients visualized the constellation, she held an ear of grain.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx botany English) A spike. 2 A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk.
Wikipedia
SPICA S.p.A. (Società Pompe Iniezione Cassani & Affini) was an Italian manufacturer of fuel injection systems.
Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo
Spica may refer to:
The Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA), initially called HII/L2 after the launch vehicle and orbit, is a proposed infrared space telescope, follow-on to the successful AKARI spacecraft.
Spica (, stylized as SPICA) is a South Korean girl group formed in 2012 under B2M Entertainment. The group consists of Kim Boa, Park Sihyun, Park Narae, Yang Jiwon and Kim Bohyung. Their prologue single Doggedly was released on January 10, 2012, followed by their debut mini-album Russian Roulette on February 8, 2012.
Usage examples of "spica".
Why a top officer of the powerful Bank of Spica should want to quiz Floyt about his inheritance, then try to shoot him and Alacrity, was still a puzzle.
And precisely at the moment of the heliacal rising of Arcturus, also rose Spica Virginis.
They jeered when I spoke of the lunar mountains, And the thrilling heat and cold, And the ebon valleys by silver peaks, And Spica quadrillions of miles away, And the littleness of man.
At eleven minutes after midnight, the flagship of the 27th Fleet demanded that the miners of Spica II relinquish their daily quota of iron.
At twenty-two minutes after midnight, the seventy-two miners who formed the total population of Spica II gathered by the largest single refinery on the planet and set off a series of three nuclear bombs.
They jeered when I spoke of the lunar mountains, And the thrilling heat and cold, And the ebon valleys by silver peaks, And Spica quadrillions of miles away, And the littleness of man.
Her waifish eyes, heavily made up and almost comically long-lashed, were as blue as Spica, Alacrity thought, while Floyt compared them to cornflowers.
Quin was at a telescope in the dome next morning, following what was left of the Spica and plotting its positions, when Charbon brought Jason to see the search gear.
Maybe their interactions in the Spheres of Canopus and Spica and the open cluster of the Hyades had developed an affinity.
The maiden Erigone, patroness of the wheat field, had gone to heaven with an ear of wheat in her hand, and that ear of wheat was the star Spica.