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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca