Noun: pica
Sample Sentences
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The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil. [1986, George S Baroff, Mental retardation: nature, cause, and management:]
Nouns inflected like pica
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Latin pīca (“jay; magpie”). Doublet of pie (“magpie”).
2. * (pathology): From the idea that magpies will eat almost anything. See: Latin Nouns '
pīca'.