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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



... of roses from the Maryland to the American Beauty, the violet and its college-bred descendant the pansy, the heliotrope, the gladiolus, the carnation, the primrose, the chrysanthemum, the sweet pea, the aster, and the orchid. But, if he can reach the high plane of the lily-of-the-valley, in all its daintiness, delicacy, chastity, and fragrance, he will have achieved distinction. When society shall have attained to the lily-of-the-valley plane, life will ...
— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson

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



Words linked to "Aster" :   structure, goldilocks, Michaelmas daisy, Aster falcatus, sea starwort, bodily structure, flower, complex body part, anatomical structure, Linosyris vulgaris, cornflower aster, body structure, Short's aster



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