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Webster 1913 Edition
Aster
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.
2.
(Floriculture)
A plant of the genus
Callistephus
. Many varieties (called China asters
, German asters
, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers. Webster 1828 Edition
Aster
AS'TER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Aster
Aster
Translingual
Proper noun
Aster m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the asters.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Astereae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): See Aster on WikispeciesWikispecies for the many species
Translations
References
- ↑ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988.
- ↑ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
- ↑ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.
Dutch
Etymology
Proper noun
Aster ?
- A male given name
Related terms
- asteroïde
- astraal (adjective)
Anagrams
aster
aster
English
Noun
aster (plural asters)
- (obsolete) A star.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
- by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [transl. astres] and planets are caused and transported.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
- Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Penguin 2011, p.120:
- 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.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Penguin 2011, p.120:
- (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
plant
star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
Borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr).
Noun
astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension
- A star
- Aster amellus, the Italian starwort
Declension
Third declension, Greek type, nominative singular in -ēr.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | astēr | asterēs |
genitive | asteris | asterum |
dative | asterī | asteribus |
accusative | astera asterem |
asterēs |
ablative | astere | asteribus |
vocative | astēr | asterēs |
Etymology 2
See asto
Verb
aster
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of astō
References
- aster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “aster”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- aster in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia