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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats