Associations to the word «Aster»

Pictures for the word «Aster»

Wiktionary

ASTER, noun. (obsolete) A star.
ASTER, noun. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
ASTER, noun. (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
ASTER, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae   — the asters.

Dictionary definition

ASTER, noun. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
ASTER, noun. Star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King