/spuy"keuh/ , n. , pl. spicae /-see/ , spicas for 1, 2.
1. spike 2 .
2. a type of bandage in the shape of a figure eight, extending from an extremity to the trunk.
3. ( cap. ) Astron. a first-magnitude star in the constellation Virgo.
[ 1350-1400; ME spica lit., ear of grain; cf. SPIKE 2 ]