aster
Multiple Entries:aster -aster
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
aster /ˈastə/
▶noun a plant of a large genus that includes the Michaelmas daisy, with characteristic purple or pink rayed flowers. [Genus Aster: numerous species.]
– origin C17: via L. from Gk astēr ‘star’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-aster/ˈastə/
▶suffix forming nouns.
- 1 denoting poor quality: poetaster.
- 2 Botany denoting incomplete resemblance: oleaster.
– origin from L.
'aster' also found in these Oxford entries:
-aster
- asterisk
- asterism
- asteroid
- astrantia
- China aster
- cotoneaster
- goldilocks
- Michaelmas daisy
- poetaster
- pompom
