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- English Word Aster Definition A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.
- English Word Aster Definition A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.
- English Word Asterias Definition A genus of echinoderms.
- English Word Asteriated Definition Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.
- English Word Asteridea Definition A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal.
- English Word Asteridian Definition Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea.
- English Word Asteridian Definition A starfish; one of the Asterioidea.
- English Word Asterioidea Definition Alt. of Asteridea
- English Word Asterion Definition The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.
- English Word Asteriscus Definition The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes.
- English Word Asterisk Definition The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character.
- English Word Asterism Definition A constellation.
- English Word Asterism Definition A small cluster of stars.
- English Word Asterism Definition An asterisk, or mark of reference.
- English Word Asterism Definition Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage.
- English Word Asterism Definition An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.
- English Word Astern Definition In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
- English Word Astern Definition Behind a ship; in the rear.
- English Word Asternal Definition Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.
- English Word Asteroid Definition A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
- English Word Asteroidal Definition Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.
- English Word Asterolepis Definition A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.
- English Word Asterophyllite Definition A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.
- English Word Astert Definition To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.
- English Word Astert Definition To escape.
- English Word Asthenia Definition Alt. of Astheny
- English Word Asthenic Definition Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.
- English Word Asthenopia Definition Weakness of sight.
- English Word Astheny Definition Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.
- English Word Asthma Definition A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.