spica
spica
[ˈspʌɪkə]
noun
[-keɪt, -kət]
adjective
[-ˈkeɪtɪd]
adjective
[ˈspʌɪkə]
noun
- (Medicine)a bandage folded into a spiral arrangement resembling an ear of wheat or barley
(医)人字形绷带，穗形绷带 - (Botany)a spike or spike-like form
[-keɪt, -kət]
adjective
- (only in sense 2)
[-ˈkeɪtɪd]
adjective
- (only in sense 2)
- late 17th cent.: from Latin, literally spike, ear of corn'; related to spina 'spine'. The current sense is influenced by Greek stakhus 'ear of wheat'
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