Definition of Aster

1. Noun. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.


2. Noun. Star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis.

Definition of Aster

1. n. A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

2. n. A star- shaped figure of achromatic substance found chiefly in cells dividing by mitosis.

Definition of Aster

1. Noun. (obsolete) A star. ¹

2. Noun. Any of several plants of the genus ''Aster''; one of its flowers. ¹

3. Noun. (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aster

1. a flowering plant [n -S]

Medical Definition of Aster

1. Star shaped cluster of microtubules radiating from the polar microtubule organising centre at the start of mitosis. (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aster

astaxanthin
astay
asteatodes
asteatosis
asteatosis cutis
asteism
asteisms
asteismus
asteistic
astel
astelic
astelies
astels
astely
astemizole
aster (current term)
aster family
asteraceae
astereognosis
asteria
asterias
asteriated
asterid
asterid dicot family
asterid dicot genus
asteridea
asteridian
asterids
asterion
asteriosaponins

Literary usage of Aster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"aster LAEVIS L. Smooth aster. A species more common than the New England aster and ... A small bushy, autumn flowering, white aster, having its very perfect ..."

2. Report (1913)
"aster. Open woods. Frequent. 434. aster laevis Lin., Var. laevigatus (Hk.) A. Gr. ... aster. Dry fields and hills. Common. 436. aster lateriflorus (Lin. ..."

3. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"A. ericoides L. White Heath aster. Petoskey, CF Wheeler; Bay Co., GM Bradford; ... Late Purple aster. Diy grounds. Ann Arbor; Macomb Co. SE 2101. ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"aster diffusus var. bifrons A. Gray, Syn. Fl. i: Part 2, 187. 1884. Leaves linear-elliptic, conspicuously drooping, remotely appressed-serrulate. often with ..."

5. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"aster Atticus was formerly employed in diseases of the eye. — Foster, 1890. ... aster is of efficacy for tumors or inflammations in the groin. ..."

6. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"Probably no New England aster has caused more confusion and has been less ... aster patulus, though then unknown in the wild state, seems to have been ..."

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