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Definition of Asters
1. aster [n] - See also: aster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asters
Literary usage of Asters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE asters Teacher's Story ET us believe that the scientist who gave to the asters
their Latin ... "And asters by the brookside make asters in the brook. ..."
2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1906)
"DIVARICATI DIVISION A. DIVARICATE asters proper. ... Like the other broad-leaved
asters ; which have usually narrower bracts, however. ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1843)
"Hovey & Co., of Boston, a stand of fine double German asters. P. Dodge, a large
and beautiful bouquet of dahlias, asters, gladiolus, &c. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The aster formation continues until a climax is reached, when one can count no
less than seventy- five distinct asters scattered about through the cytoplasm ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1862)
"We have made it up of free blooming kinds, and of the easiest culture.
The Schizanthus, asters, Zinnia, and Balsams must not be grown ..."
6. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1911)
"Here the sperm-asters increase in size until they extend throughout the whole body
... Yet in all of those cases where the sperm-asters disappear and their ..."
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