transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈas-tər ]
noun
Date: 1664
1.
[New Latin, from Latin, aster, from Greek aster-, astēr star, aster — more at star ]
a. : any of various chiefly fall-blooming leafy-stemmed composite herbs ( Aster and closely related genera) with often showy heads containing disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers
b. : China aster
2.
[New Latin, from Greek aster-, astēr ]
: a system of microtubules arranged radially about a centriole at either end of the mitotic or meiotic spindle
[
aster 1a
]