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A binary star in the constellation Virgo; alpha (α) Virginis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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noun
A spike (kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
A spur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology
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noun
A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.
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noun
the brightest star in Virgo
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: star
History
From Latin spīca virginis (“Virgo's ear of grain”).
Learned borrowing from Latin spica.
Across languages
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