Definition of Genus aster

1. Noun. Large genus of herbs widely cultivated for their daisylike flowers.

Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Aster

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Aster

genus Asimina
genus Asio
genus Aspalathus
genus Asparagus
genus Aspergillus
genus Asperula
genus Asphodeline
genus Asphodelus
genus Aspidelaps
genus Aspidiotus
genus Aspidistra
genus Aspidophoroides
genus Aspis
genus Asplenium
genus Astacus
genus Aster
genus Astilbe
genus Astragalus
genus Astrantia
genus Astreus
genus Astroloma
genus Astronium
genus Astrophyton
genus Astropogon
genus Ateles
genus Athene
genus Atherinopsis
genus Atherurus
genus Athrotaxis
genus Athyrium

Literary usage of Genus aster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1906)
"Torrey and Gray's Flora of North America, when treating the Au-rs, May, 1841, reunited most of the Astereae of the United States into the om- genus Aster ..."

2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"THE genus aster. By Professor GL GOODALE, Harvard University, USA THE kind invitation received from the Secretary of the Society to present a communication ..."

3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus aster ASTER (Latin, aster, a star, from the rayed flower-heads). A large genus (about one hundred and fifty species) of perennial herbs, with radical ..."

4. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1866)
"It is, however, very closely allied to tile extensive genus Aster, widely diffused over the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, especially in ..."

5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"T. & G. is a very interesting race with light yellow rays, known from genus Aster as here limited. 73. ..."

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