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Plural of aster

regular plural

The plural of aster is asters.

Forms of aster

Singularaster /ˈæs.tə(ɹ)/
Pluralasters
Countablecountable

Asters in a sentence

  • 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
  • Gorillas (and other wildlife) frequent such bais, which are waterlogged and sunny, because of the sodium-rich sedges and asters that grow beneath the open sky.2012, David Quammen, Spillover, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry bai
  • On the four sides of the box are autumnal plants — asters, patrinias, crawfudias, miscanthuses, eupatoriiuns, platycodons, and chrysanthemums, among which butterflies hover.1930, Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, volumes 28-32, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, page 23. From the entry miscanthus
  • Forget-me-not Pass was an alpland filled to overflowing with colorful flower displays: red Indian paintbrush, purple asters, yellow buttercups, and, of course, myriads of blue forgetme-nots.1989, Cyndi Smith, Off the Beaten Track: Women Adventurers and Mountaineers in Western Canada, Waterton Park, Atla.: Coyote Books, →ISBN…. From the entry alpland
  • Some argued that “Honorable Mention,” who had used Queen Anne’s lace, field asters, and devil’s-paintbrush (which to Peter’s eye was orange), ought to have had first prize.1971, Mary McCarthy, Birds of America, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, page 82. From the entry floristy

Meaning of aster

  1. noun Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
  2. noun A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
  3. noun A star.

Full definition of aster

Questions about the plural of aster

What is the plural of aster?
The plural of aster is asters.
Is aster countable?
Aster is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aster (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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