Aster acuminatus
— Noun
– English
~ North American perennial with apparently whorled leaves and showy white purple-tinged flowers
Aster arenosus
— Noun
– English
~ common North American perennial with heathlike foliage and small white flower heads
aster
— Noun
– English
~ star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis
aster
— Noun
– English
~ any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers
Asteraceae
— Noun
– English
~ plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
astereognosis
— Noun
– English
~ a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them
asteriated
— Adjective
– English
~ (of some crystals especially gemstones) exhibiting asterism
Asteridae
— Noun
– English
~ a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder
asterion
— Noun
– English
~ the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture
asterisk
— Verb
– English
~ mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences"