Pica or PICA may refer to:

Biology

  • Pica (disorder), an abnormal appetite for earth and other non-foods
  • Posterior inferior cerebellar artery, a major artery supplying blood to the cerebellum

Organisms

  • Aechmea 'Pica', a cultivar of the flowering plant Aechmea recurvata
  • Pica (bird), a genus of magpies
  • Pika, a small mammal (archaic spelling "pica")

Organizations

  • OCLC PICA, a library automation company
  • Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, known by its Yiddish 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

  • Amalia Pica (born 1978), Argentine artist
  • 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)

Places

  • Pica, Chile, an oasis town in the Atacama Desert of Chile
  • Limón de Pica, a lime variety from Pica
  • Pica, Cumbria, a village in northwest England
  • Pica, Jayuya, Puerto Rico, a barrio

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, a traditional point-size name for the font used by many typewrites
  • píča, a rude expression for a vagina in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

See also

  • Pico (disambiguation)
  • Piga (disambiguation)
  • Pika (disambiguation)