aster

aster

aster

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ast?

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

àstero

Altri significati:

Aster (genus)

(obsolete) A star.

taxonomic terms (plants)

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

Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.

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