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aster
noun
- any of a large genus (Aster) of plants of the composite family, with purplish, blue, pink, or white daisylike flowers
- China aster
- a structure shaped like a star, formed during mitosis around the centrosome in the cytoplasm of a cell: not formed in seed plant cells
See aster in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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