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A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.
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The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.
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Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
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An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
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A starfish; one of the Asterioidea.
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In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
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Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster.
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The eighteenth asteroid.
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Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.
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A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.
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Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.
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Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.
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Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea.
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Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
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An asterisk, or mark of reference.
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Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.
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Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage.
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Asteriated sapphire.
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An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.
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Alt. of Asteridea
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