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Definition of Genus aster
1. Noun. Large genus of herbs widely cultivated for their daisylike flowers.
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Aster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Aster
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. ..."