Pica

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1. Noun

The genus that includes the magpies.

2. Noun

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

3. Noun

A service-book. See Pie.

4. Noun

A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.

5. Noun

an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently
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