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Not to be confused with Pika.
Pica or PICA may refer to:
Biology
- Aechmea 'Pica', a hybrid cultivar in the Bromeliad family of flowering plants
- Pica (disorder), abnormal appetite for earth and other non-foods
- Pica (genus), a genus of magpie
- Posterior inferior cerebellar artery, a major artery supplying blood to the cerebellum
Moths
- Amblyptilia pica (Pterophoridae family)
- Blastobasis pica (Blastobasidae family)
- Bordaia pica (Hepialidae family)
- Eucereon pica (Arctiidae family)
- Hypatopa pica (Blastobasidae family)
Sea snails
- Cittarium pica (Tegulidae family)
- Clavus pica (Drilliidae family)
- Conus pica (Conidae family)
- Diodora pica (Fissurellidae family)
- Mitra pica (Mitridae family)
- Oliva pica (Olividae family)
Organizations
- OCLC PICA, a library automation company
- Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, known by its Hebrew acronym as PICA
- Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, a governmental agency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia
- Pica Press, a publishing imprint
- Pittsburgh Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, a governmental agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon
People
- Antonio Pica (1923–2014), Spanish actor
- Joe Pica (1923–1973), American pianist
- Pierre Pica (born 1951), French linguist
- Teresa P. Pica (1945–2011), American educator
- Tina Pica (1884–1968), Italian actress
- Yamantaka Eye (born 1964), Japanese artist known as DJ Pica Pica Pica (DJ 光光光)
Technology
- Acer PICA, a system logic chipset introduced in 1993
- Phenolic impregnated carbon ablator, a spacecraft heat shield material
- Pre-integrated COF APM, part of the International Space Station's Columbus module systems
Other uses
- Pica, an alternative name for the grape Merille
- Pica, a lance used by a picador in bullfighting
- Pica (typography), a unit of length used in typesetting and document layout
- Pica, Chile, a city in the Tarapacá Region of Chile
- Pica, Cumbria, a village in northwest England
- píča, a rude expression for a vagina in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
See also
- small pica, the type size between long primer and pica
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