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pica
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pica is characterized by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive, such as ice (pagophagia); hair (trichophagia); paper (papyrophagia); drywall or paint; metal (metallophagia); stones (lithophagia) or earth ( geophagia ); glass (hyalophagia); ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context medicine English) A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand. Etymology 2 n. 1 (context typography printing uncountable English) A size of type between small ...
Usage examples of pica.
The three were sitting in the smoky shadows of the Mos Eisley Cantina, sipping green Pica Thundercloud and watching the bounty hunters drift in from around the galaxy: Weequays, Aqualish, Arcona, Defels, Kauronians, Fneebs, Quill-heads, Bomodons, Alpheridians - and the inevitable Ganks.
Sus articulaciones crujieron como bisagras oxidadas cuando los gigantes recogieron sus picas y sus alabardas y se pusieron de pie.
Men had always pushed forward across Pica as they pleased, not least because sims lacked the bns to fight back.
Junto a ellos había alabardas y picas con hojas de cobre apoyadas sobre las paredes o tiradas en el suelo.
But after no more than a moment's gravity he joined in the general congratulation and then told them (not without a certain satisfaction, having suffered much from cat-harpins and nether dog-pawls) that pica was the type that gave you six ems to the inch, and that all books, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo or even less, took their dimensions from the original sheets, folded twice, four times, eight times and so on, as the case might be, the original sheets having themselves various sizes and names, as foolscap, crown, quad crown, double quad crown, post, demy, royal and many more.