spica

noun

1. A spike (kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis).
2. A spur.
3. A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.

name

1. A binary star in the constellation Virgo; alpha (α) Virginis.

   “The constellation Virgo is a Y-shaped group, of which α, the star at the foot, is the well-known Spica, a star of the first magnitude.”