aster

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Aster incisus (1)

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From Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ.

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Singular
aster

Plural
asters

aster (plural asters)

  1. (obsolete) A star.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 94:
      by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [tr. astres] and planets are caused and transported.
  2. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
  3. (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.

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