aster
noun/ˈæstə(r)/
/ˈæstər/
- a garden plant that has pink, purple, blue or white flowers with many long narrow petalsWord Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘a star’): via Latin from Greek astēr ‘star’.
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