Pica

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A printer's unit of type size, equal to 12 points or about 1/6 of an inch.
  • n. An equivalent unit of composition measurement used in determining the dimensions of lines, illustrations, or printed pages.
  • n. A type size for typewriters, providing ten characters to the inch.
  • n. An abnormal craving or appetite for nonfood substances, such as dirt, paint, or clay.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
  • n. Archaic form of pika. (small rodent)
  • n. A size of type.
  • n. A unit of measure equivalent to 12 points.
  • n. A Roman Catholic service book; a type of ecclesiastical calendar book.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The genus that includes the magpies.
  • n. A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
  • n. A service-book. See Pie.
  • n. A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A genus of oscine passerine birds of the family Corvidæ and sub-family Garrulinæ, having an extremely long graduated tail, the nostrils covered with antrorse plumules, and the plumage iridescent black and white; the magpies.
  • n. [lowercase] A bird of the genus Pica; a pie; a magpie.
  • n. In medicine, a vitiated craving for what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, or coal.
  • n. Eccles., same as ordinal, 2 .
  • n. An alphabetical catalogue of names and things in rolls and records.
  • n. A size of printing-type, about 6 lines to the inch, intermediate between the sizes English (larger) and small-pica (smaller).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing
  • n. an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently
  • n. magpies
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    double small-pica    pica marina    double pica    two-line pica    point    cicero    en    em   
    Variant
    pie   
    Form
    pica point   
    Synonym
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    Rhyme
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    Formica    Micah    mica   
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