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Aster   /ˈæstər/   Listen
Aster

noun
1.
Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
2.
Star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis.



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"Aster" Quotes from Famous Books



... spent in this way at the lounge window! How many new specimens of underwater flora and fauna I marveled at beneath the light of our electric beacon! Mushroom-shaped fungus coral, some slate-colored sea anemone including the species Thalassianthus aster among others, organ-pipe coral arranged like flutes and just begging for a puff from the god Pan, shells unique to this sea that dwell in madreporic cavities and whose bases are twisted into squat spirals, and finally a thousand samples of a polypary I hadn't observed ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne

... with August sun, was broken everywhere by lumps and boulders of that odd conglomerate which is known by the name of "plum-pudding stone." Golden-rod and the early blue aster were flowering everywhere. A flock of sheep fled at their approach, with a low rushing sound ...
— A Little Country Girl • Susan Coolidge

... Mr. Green's requirements was that the cylinders should be made of cast-steel, and that they should come from a British foundry. The company that took the work in hand, the Aster Company, had confidence in the inventor's ideas. It is said that they had to waste 250 castings before six perfect cylinders were produced. It is estimated that the first Green engine cost L6000. These engines can be purchased for less ...
— The Mastery of the Air • William J. Claxton

... violet, They perished long ago, And the brier rose and the orchis died Amid the summer's glow; But on the hill, the golden-rod, And the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, In autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven, As falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone From upland, ...
— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... and in the dusty gray of the roadside, closed gentians gloomed, and the aster burned like a purple star. It was the finest autumn for many years. People said, with every clear day, "Now this must be a weather-breeder;" but still the storm delayed. Then they anxiously scanned the heavens, as if, weeks beforehand, the signs of the time ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown



Words linked to "Aster" :   flower, body structure, structure, complex body part, prairie aster, sickleweed golden aster, Michaelmas daisy, goldilocks, golden aster, bodily structure, Linosyris vulgaris, anatomical structure, rush aster, sea starwort



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