Crossword clues for aster
aster
- Fall bloom
- Showy bloom
- Colorful flower
- Late-blooming flower
- Daisy look-alike
- Daisy-like flower
- Autumn flower
- Star-shaped flower
- Common flower
- Starlike flower
- Garden perennial
- Daisylike fall flower
- Type of flower
- Sunflower cousin
- Daisy lookalike
- September flower
- Purple perennial
- Late-summer bloom
- Garden store buy
- Fall-blooming flower
- Fall wildflower
- Star flower
- Rayed bloom
- Plant with daisy-like flowers
- Oxeye relative
- Daisy cousin
- Yellow-centered bloomer, perhaps
- Rayed flower
- Member of the daisy family
- Late-blooming perennial
- Late bloom
- It blooms late in the season
- It blooms in the fall
- Garden-variety star?
- Flower from the Greek for "star"
- Daisylike plant
- Daisy kin
- Bloomer with a yellow center
- Bloom with rays
- Bloom of the fall
- Thistle's relative
- Tears (anag) — plant
- Star-shaped bloomer
- Sporter of purple rays
- Source of fall color
- September birth flower
- September annual
- Rayed autumn flower, that's the time of year we go back to school
- Rayed autumn bloom
- Rates (anag)
- Perennial known for attracting butterflies
- October flower
- Michaelmas daisy, for one
- Member of the sunflower family
- Many-petaled bloom
- It usually has a yellow center
- Growth in autumn beds
- Goldilocks, e.g
- Frost-resistant flower
- Flower with a yellow central disk
- Flower with a star-shaped head
- Flower with a showy bud
- Flower whose name derives from the shape of its cluster
- Flower that's an anagram of "tears"
- Flower that becomes a holiday if an E is added to the front
- Flower similar to a daisy
- Flower popular with butterflies
- Flower of the daisy family — rates (anag)
- Flower hidden in "Michaelmas term"
- Flower for a 20th wedding anniversary
- Flower also called a "Michaelmas daisy" (Is Michaelmas a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Michael???)
- Disparaging suffix for poet
- Daisylike, late-blooming flower
- Daisylike flower that blooms in the autumn
- Daisylike fall bloomer
- Daisy, e.g
- Daisy-like perennial
- Dahlia cousin
- Composite family member
- China __: showy bloom
- Butterfly garden staple
- Bright-rayed flower
- Blossom of autumn
- Bloom that's often white or lavender
- Bloom popular with butterflies
- Autumn-blooming perennial
- Fall bloomer
- Michaelmas daisy, e.g
- Colorful perennial
- Sunflower, in furniture decoration
- Fall flower that comes from the Latin word for star
- Daisylike bloom
- China _____ (showy bloom)
- September bloom
- Starwort, e.g
- Flower with a showy head
- China___
- It has many narrow rays
- Late bloomer?
- It has a yellow disk
- Daisy relative
- Starwort, e.g.
- Sandburg's "farewell-summer flower"
- Heath ___ (flowering perennial)
- Autumn bloomer
- Garden annual
- Beeweed, e.g.
- Fall blossom
- Disk-shaped flower
- Frostflower
- Beach ___ (seaside daisy)
- It has many rays
- Bloom shaped like a 43-Across
- Fall composite
- Provider of fall color
- Daisylike flower with a yellow center
- Showy annual
- China ___ (showy bloom)
- Showy flower
- Provider of some fall color
- Flower with rays
- Cousin of a daisy
- Bloom in Robert Frost's "A Late Walk"
- Traditional flower for a 20th wedding anniversary
- Purplish bloom
- Butterfly attractor
- Floral symbol of patience
- Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers
- Star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis
- Suffix for poet or critic
- Suffix with poet or critic
- Postsummer bloomer
- Garden plant
- Fall-blooming plant
- Flower that blooms in the fall
- Sunflower relative
- Beeweed, e.g
- Leafy-stemmed plant
- Tanglefoot, e.g
- Garden bloomer
- Garden favorite
- Ending for poet or critic
- "Star" in a garden
- Poet follower
- Daisy's cousin
- Yellow-centered bloomer, sometimes
- Goldenrod's cousin
- Daisy's relative
- Beeweed or starwort
- Homophone for 22 Across
- China ___ (garden bloom)
- Tanglefoot, e.g.
- Popular garden annual
- Ending with poet or critic
- Autumn blossom
- Flower of fall
- Dahlia's relative
- Dahlia's kin
- Suffix with critic or poet
- China or golden ___
- "Variety" is its word
- Popular perennial
- Composite flower
- Garden flower
- Wife leaving layabout, one often found in bed?
- Flower of the daisy family - rates
- Flower festival failing to open
- Purple flower
- Bloom shaped like a 43-Ac
- Daisy's kin
- Daisy needs a bit taken off behind
- Daisy's look-alike
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aster \As"ter\ ([a^]s"t[~e]r), n. [L. aster aster, star, Gr. 'asth`r star. See Star.]
(Bot.) A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.
(Floriculture) A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.
(Biol.) A star-shaped figure of achromatic substance found chiefly in cells dividing by mitosis.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flower genus, 1706, from Latin aster "star" (see star (n.)); so called for the radiate heads of the flowers. Originally used in English in the Latin sense (c.1600) but this is obsolete.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A star. 2 Any of several plants of the genus ''Aster''; one of its flowers. 3 (context biology English) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
WordNet
n. any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers
star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis
Wikipedia
Aster is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Its circumscription has been narrowed, and it now encompasses around 180 species, all but one of which are restricted to Eurasia; many species formerly in Aster are now in other genera of the tribe Astereae.
The Aster missile series, primarily comprising the Aster 15 and Aster 30 are a family of vertically launched surface-to-air missiles. The name "Aster" originates from the mythical Greek archer named Asterion (in Greek mythology), Asterion likewise receiving his name from the ancient Greek word aster , meaning "star". Aster is manufactured by Eurosam, a European consortium consisting of MBDA France, MBDA Italy (combined 66%) and the Thales Group (33%). The missile is designed to intercept and destroy a wide range of air threats, such as supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles at very low altitude ( Sea-skimming) and fast flying, high performance aircraft or missiles.
Aster is primarily operated by France, Italy, and the United Kingdom and is an integrated component of the PAAMS air-defence missile system, known in the Royal Navy as Sea Viper. As the principal weapon of the PAAMS system, Aster equips the Type 45 destroyers and the Horizon class frigates. Aster also equips the French and Italian FREMM multipurpose frigates, though they will not be operating as part of a PAAMS air-defence suite.
Although the Aster 30 is anti-ballistic missile capable, an Aster Block 2 BMD (Ballistic Missile Defence) variant of the Aster 30 missile, with Hit-To-Kill and exo-atmospheric capability, is currently being developed.
Aster may refer to:
The Aster was an English automobile manufactured from 1922 to 1930. The companies car roots can be traced to 1899 when Begbie Manufacturing of Wembley, in north London became British licensees of the French Aster company ( Ateliers de Construction Mecanique l'Aster) making mainly stationary engines. In 1913 they became Aster Engineering Co (1913) Ltd and during World War I made aircraft engines.
An aster is a cellular structure shaped like a star, formed around each centrosome during mitosis in an animal cell. Astral rays, composed of microtubules, radiate from the centrosphere and look like a cloud. It is one of the variants of microtubules like kinetochore- and interpolar microtubules.
During mitosis, there are four stages of cell division: Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase. During prophase, two aster-covered centrosomes migrate to opposite sides of the nucleus in preparation of mitotic spindle formation. During metaphase, the kinetochore microtubules connect to the centromere. Afterwards, during anaphase, the kinetochore microtubules pull the chromatids apart into its individual chromosomes and pull them towards the centrosomes, located at opposite ends of the cell. This allows the cell to divide properly with each daughter cell containing full replicas of chromosomes. In some cells, the positions of the asters determine the site of cell divisions.
The Aster typeface, which originated in Italy, was designed in 1958 by Francesco Simoncini for Simoncini to be used in newspapers and books. This typeface is fairly wide with detailed, delicate serifs; it also has short ascenders and descenders for economy of space. The New Aster font family offers a few distinguishing marks, like the spurs of capitals A, N, V and W.
Usage examples of "aster".
At the edge of the woods, the tall stems of goldenrod, low masses of blue ageratum, black-eyed Susans, and lavender asters, all tangled with binding vines of pink morning glory just closing its flowers.
Anemone japonica, Aralia Sieboldi, Asters, Chrysanthemum, Lilium auratum, Origanum pulchellum, Petasites vulgaris, Physalis Alkekengi, Primula vulgaris flore-pleno, Saxifraga Fortunei, Stokesia cyanea.
She stole to the graveyard to pray her silent prayers over her weaving: aster, asphodel, rosemary, and rue, each bound into a chaplet tied with three strands of her silvery hair.
Each swan extended her neck, then plunged it delicately beneath a garland to emerge crowned with asphodels and aster, rosemary and rue .
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.
After Midway an attack of dengue fever had laid her low, and Carter Aster had visited her every day and had seen to her needs of food and medicine, and one thing had led to another.
He no longer wished to cultivate the image of a sweet chap passionately interested in nothing except phlox, asters, freesias and gardenias.
Now violet plumes of liatris sprang up around the chapel door beside unruly masses of sweet-smelling phlox and glowing clouds of asters.
Over the years I had added border gardens along the stone walls, filled with day lilies and nicotiana, astilbe and asters, and had replaced an acre of untamed weed with a wildflower field that threw up a colorful sea of poppies, loosestrife, and cosmos.
The museum comprehended an infinite number of medals, coins, urns, utensils, seals, cameos, intaglios, precious stones, vessels of agate and jasper, crystals, spars, fossils, metals, minerals, ore, earths, sands, salts, bitumens, sulphurs, ambergrise, talcs, mirre, testacea, corals, sponges, echini, echenites, asteri, trochi, crustatia, stellae marine, fishes, birds, eggs and nests, vipers, serpents, quadrupeds, insects, human calculi, anatomical preparations, seeds, gums, roots, dried plants, pictures, drawings, and mathematical instruments.
They still bear his name: the white Michaelmas daisy, aster tradescantii, and the spiderwort, Tradescantia Virginia.
Sam Bohee, coloured coons in white duck suits, scarlet socks, upstarched Sambo chokers and large scarlet asters in their buttonholes, leap out.
The trees at Tse Bonito Park were yellow, the roadsides were streaked with the purple of the last surviving October asters, and overhead the sky was the dark, blank blue.
We use ASTER technology, Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer instruments built into various satellite platforms to track groupings of gases associated with decomposition.
Janice sat up talking with Byron long after Aster left, about the patrol, and then about Warren, reminiscing affectionately as they had never done before.