pica

pica

a pica (third-person singular present pic?, past participle picat) 1st conj.

1. (of a liquid) to drip
2. (literally and figuratively) to fall
3. to fail
4. to come unexpectedly

Wikipedia pica (usually uncountable; plural picas)

1. A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
   • 1986, George S Baroff, Mental retardation: nature, cause, and management

     The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil.

	pica
	A typographical unit of measure that is equal to one sixth of an inch.

Altri significati:

A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.

(typography, countable) A unit of measure equivalent to 12 points.

(typography, uncountable) A size of type.

appetite that craves which is unfit for food

Traduzione 'veloce'

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