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pica
/ˈpaɪkə/
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What does pica mean?
noun
- A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
- A magpie.
- A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.
More meanings (6)
noun
- A font of this size.
- A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.
- A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.
- Abbreviation of phenolic impregnated carbon ablator.
- Initialism of posterior inferior cerebellar artery.
- (archaic) Archaic form of pika (“small lagomorph”).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpaɪkə/
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It was a folio, pro patria size, in pica, with long primer notes.
The habit of dirt eating or clay-eating, called pica, is well authenticated in many countries.
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The common magpie (Corvus pica, Linn.), as I have been informed by the Rev. W. Darwin Fox, used to assemble from all parts of Delamere Forest, in order to celebrate the “great magpie marriage.”