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Aster

//ˈæs.tə(ɹ)// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.

    "On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A."

  2. 2
    star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis wordnet
  3. 3
    A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
  4. 4
    any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers wordnet
  5. 5
    A star. obsolete

    "by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [translating astres] and planets are caused and transported."

Etymology

From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Doublet of star; related to estoile, étoile, stella, and stelo.

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