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noun

Aster n.

(Bot.) A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

(Floriculture) A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.

(Biol.) A star-shaped figure of achromatic substance found chiefly in cells dividing by mitosis.

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"Aster" Quotes from Famous Books

... the milkweed butterfly's wing, and the color of the spice-bush swallowtail, Peter Champneys? What does the humming-bird's nest look like? What's the color of the rainbow-snake and of the cotton-mouth moccasin? What's the difference between the ironweed and the aster?"—Ask Peter things like that, and lend him a bit of paper and a pencil, and he literally had the ...

— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler

... at the honeysuckle's quaint conceit, but made no reply, for yonder he saw a purple aster ...

— Second Book of Tales • Eugene Field

... Holofernes of "Love's Labor's Lost." A thousand such fantastic instances of "trifling with the letter" might be quoted; and even so late as the reign of Queen Anne we find this foolish wit indulged. The cynical Swift[2] stoops to change Miss Waring into Varina; Esther (quasi Aster, a star) Johnson is known as Stella; Essy Van-homrigh figures as Vanessa; while Cadenus, by an easy change of syllables, is resolved into Decanus, or the Dean himself ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II., November, 1858., No. XIII. • Various

... older countries are commonly confined to wet ground. There were very few flowers, even allowing for the lateness of the season. It chanced that I saw no asters in bloom along the road for fifty miles, though they were so abundant then in Massachusetts,—except in one place one or two of the aster acuminatus,—and no golden-rods till within twenty miles of Monson, where I saw a three-ribbed one. There were many late buttercups, however, and the two fire-weeds, erechthites and epilobium, commonly where there had been ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various

... I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ...

— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools

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