aster

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Aster incisus (1)
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Etymology [edit]

From Latin aster, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ.

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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 [transl. astres] and planets are caused and transported.
  2. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, 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.
  3. (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.

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aster

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of astō