pica

  1. Noun.  A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
  2. Noun.  (typography, uncountable) A size of type.
  3. Noun.  (typography, countable) A unit of measure equivalent to 12 points.

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