Spica

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A bandage applied in overlapping opposite spirals to immobilize a digit or limb.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk.
  • Word Usage
    "The ear of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is not all that it bears."
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