aster — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

   Esempi

   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.

2. A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.

3. A star.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [translating astres] and planets are caused and transported.

Sostantivo

1. any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers

   Termini più generali

   flower

2. star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis

   Termini più generali

   structureanatomical structurecomplex body partbodily structurebody structure