aster

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɑːstə/, /ˈastə/

  Rhymes: -æstə(r)

[edit] Noun

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.

[edit] Derived terms

• China aster (Callistephus chinensis)

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[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of aerst
• arste
• rates
• resat
• setar
• stare
• tares
• tarse
• taser, Taser
• tears
• teras