Noun: aster
| Singular | aster |
| Plural | asters |
Sample Sentences
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On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A. [1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Penguin, published 2011, page 120:]
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by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [translating astres] and planets are caused and transported. [, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94]
Nouns inflected like aster
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Doublet of star; related to estoile, étoile, stella, and stelo. See: Latin Nouns '
astēr', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἀστήρ'.