'Pica' definitions:
Definition of 'pica'
(from WordNet)
noun
An eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non- nutritional objects are eaten persistently
noun
noun
Magpies [syn: Pica, genus Pica]
Definition of 'Pica'
From: GCIDE
- Pica \Pi"ca\, n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. Pie magpie.]
- 1. (Zool.) The genus that includes the magpies. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
- Syn: allotriophagy. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica, two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- Small pica (Print.), a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pica'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- analgesia,
- anesthesia,
- anxiety equivalent,
- ascender,
- back,
- bastard type,
- beard,
- belly,
- bevel,
- black letter,
- body,
- cap,
- capital,
- case,
- counter,
- depraved appetite,
- descender,
- em,
- en,
- face,
- fat-faced type,
- feet,
- font,
- groove,
- italic,
- letter,
- ligature,
- logotype,
- lower case,
- majuscule,
- minuscule,
- neurasthenia,
- nick,
- paresthesia,
- parorexia,
- pi,
- point,
- print,
- roman,
- sans serif,
- script,
- shank,
- shoulder,
- small cap,
- small capital,
- speech abnormality,
- stamp,
- stem,
- type,
- type body,
- type class,
- type lice,
- typecase,
- typeface,
- typefounders,
- typefoundry,
- upper case