Aster
See also: Appendix:Variations of "aster"
Translingual edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin aster (“star”) because of the shape of its flowers, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”), named by botanist Carl von Linnaeus (1707-1778).[1][2][3]
Proper noun edit
Aster m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – asters.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Asterales – order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Astereae - tribe
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Aster amellus (Michaelmas daisy) - type species; for the many species see
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References edit
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- ^ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988.
- ^ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
- ^ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.
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Proper noun edit
Aster ?
- a male given name from Latin
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin astēr (“star”).
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Noun edit
Aster f (genitive Aster, plural Astern)
- (botany) aster (any of several plants of the genus Aster)
- Synonym: Sternenblume
- 1809, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, chapter 9, in Die Wahlverwandschaften [Elective Affinities][1], part 2:
- Alle sogenannten Sommergewächse, alles, was im Herbst mit Blühen nicht enden kann und sich der Kälte noch keck entgegenentwickelt, Astern besonders, waren in der größten Mannigfaltigkeit gesäet und sollten nun, überallhin verpflanzt, einen Sternhimmel über die Erde bilden.
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Declension edit
Declension of Aster [feminine]
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Aster
- a male given name from Latin