aster

plural asters

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

   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.

   1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Penguin, published 2011, page 120

2. biologyA star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
3. obsoleteA star.

   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.

   , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94

1. A unisex given name from Latin.

   He was the husband of Aster Ann Daugherty, who survives, and a son of the late Shelby and Yettie Wyatt Daugherty.

   1988 April 18, “[Regional deaths] Mayburn Daugherty”, in Park City Daily News, 134th year, number 93, Bowling Green, Ky.: News Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 2, column 2

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   Survivors include […] four sons, Albert Lee Rider of Rt. 2, Thomasville, Aster Ray Rider, A. G. Rider and Carl Eugene Rider, all of Rt. 2, Lexington; […]

   1970 February 28, “[Deaths & Funerals] Mrs. R. H. Rider”, in The High Point Enterprise, 86th year, number 59, High Point, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3A, column 1

   “Bzzmm…Dr. Leigh, I am Aster and this, is my sister Orchidea,” one of the Magi girls introduced and the girls both spread their wings with respectful grace.

   2001, C.B. Don [pseudonym], “Shattered Idyll”, in Accused by Facet-Eyes: A Classic Science-Fiction Novel, Yorba Linda, Calif.: Sterling Ter Libra, published March 2002, →ISBN, page 125

   The new mum also longs for a good night’s sleep - baby Aster’s constant crying is keeping her awake, and she longs to ask Finn for help.

   2020 January 4, “[Soaps] Neighbours (C5)”, in News & Star, Carlisle, Cumbria, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34, column 1

1. A surname.

   Like many horror movies, this one — the critically lauded, audience-dividing feature debut of Ari Aster — operates by means of a deft counterpoint of curiosity and dread.

   2018 June 15, A[nthony] O[liver] Scott, “About That ‘Hereditary’ Ending: Really?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2018

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   Carl Aster turned from the registration desk at the Sheraton Centre yesterday and saw an agreeable man stacking his load of packing cases on a baggage trolley. “You don't get this kind of welcome every time,” Mr. Aster, a shoe manufacturer from Chicago, said as Doug Pflaumer, a young Sheraton executive, did the work of a bellhop.

   1985 June 3, Jane Gross, “Guests Find a New Kind of Bellhop at Hotels During a Strike”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015

   The teacher, Samuel S. Aster, 60, was arrested shortly after midnight Friday after an 8-year-old girl had reported to her parents earlier that day that she had been sexually abused by Mr. Aster during a piano lesson at his Teaneck home.

   1999 June 8, “Metro News Briefs: New York: Music Teacher Accused of Molesting Students”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2011