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Definition of Pica pica
1. Noun. A common magpie of Eurasia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pica Pica
Literary usage of Pica pica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and by Talbot Baines Reed (1887)
"There were also, not in Specimen, a 2-line Great Primer, Double Pica, Pica, two
Small Picas and a set of 2-line Nonpareil Capitals. A Paragon, Bourgeois and ..."
2. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"pica pica (LINN.EUS). RANGE.— Europe, northern Asia, and western North America
... [Pica pica pica. Extralimital.] b. pica pica hudsonia (SABINE). Magpie. ..."
3. List of the Specimens of the British Animals in the Collection of the by George Robert Gray, James Francis Stephens, Adam White, Frederick Smith, Henry Denny, Henry Tibbats Stainton, Edwin Shepherd (1848)
"PICA. Pica, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 35 (1760). 1. ... Eur. p. 45; GR Gray, Gen. of B.
ii. p. 314. Corvus (Pica) pica ..."
4. Some Notes on Books and Printing: A Guide for Authors, Publishers, & Others by Charles Thomas Jacobi, Frederick Howard Collins, Walter Boutall (1902)
"... which speaks for itself: Points Diamond = 4! is Aa/f of Bourgeois Pearl Ruby
Nonpareil Minion Brevier Bourgeois Long Primer Small pica pica English ..."
5. The Birds of Manitoba by Ernest Thompson Seton (1891)
"pica pica hudsonica. American Magpie. Rare, and found chiefly in the west.
Kare; resident in the woods about Lake Winnipeg; have a single specimen taken 30 ..."
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