Definitions for spicas

spicas spi·ca

Spelling: [spahy-kuh]
IPA: /ˈspaɪ kə/

Spicas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in spicas (acipss).

Definitions for spicas

noun

  1. spike2 .
  2. a type of bandage in the shape of a figure eight, extending from an extremity to the trunk.
  3. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. a first-magnitude star in the constellation Virgo.

Origin of spicas

1350-1400; Middle English Latin spīca literally, ear of grain; cf. spike2

Examples for spicas

This star will be conspicuous in the evening hours throughout the summer months, as will also the less brilliant spica in Virgo.

The brightest star in this region of the sky is spica, in Virgo.

Its center lies about 50 south of spica in Virgo and below the tail of Hydra.

When it is at 3 it is at lower culmination, and the star spica is on the meridian.

The chief star of Virgo, spica, is remarkable for its pure white light.

Spike lavender or French lavender; also the male lavender, spica nardi, or pseudo-nardus of old writers.

She answered while still keeping her eyes absently on spica's white effulgence.

spica represents the ear of corn held in the Virgin's left hand.

But she is supposed to be a winged goddess who holds up in her right hand an ear of wheat, and that is what spica means.

Another very bright star in the southern part of the sky is spica.

Word Value for spicas
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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