aster
Plural: asters
Noun
- A popular garden plant with star-shaped flowers.
- any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers
- star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis
- Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
- A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
- A star.
Examples
- Playing ASTER opened up a star-shaped constellation of possibilities on the board.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Doublet of star, stella, étoile, and estoile.
Scrabble Score: 5
aster: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordaster: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
aster: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 5
aster: valid Words With Friends Word