01 n. The genus that includes the magpies.
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The genus that includes the magpies.(Zool.)
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A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.(Med.)
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A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.(Print.)
Phrases & compounds
Small pica —
a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica.
Syn.
allotriophagy.