Words Like ASTER
    
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        9 definitions of aster
           
        
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        Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
    
    
    
 
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        A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
    
    
    
 
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        A plant of the genus Aster.
    
    
    
 
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        [capitalized] [NL.] A large genus of plants, natural order Compositæ, natives of Europe, Asia, and America, but chiefly of North America, about 120 species occurring in the United States.
    
    
    
 
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        A name of plants of some allied genera, as the Cape aster (Agathæa amelloides), the China aster (Callistephus Chinensis), the false aster (Boltonia), the golden aster (Chrysopsis), and the white-topped aster (Sericocarpus).—5. In biology, a karyokinetic figure intervening in time between the rosette and the diaster during the changes in the nucleus of a cell. See diaster and karyokinesis.
    
    
    
 
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        In ornithology, same as Astur.
    
    
    
 
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        A suffix of Latin origin, forming contemptuous diminutives, as in criticaster, poetaster. It occurs without recognized diminutive force in pinaster, oleaster (which see).
    
    
    
 
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        In sponges, a multiactinate microsclere: same as euaster.