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Apter vs Aster - What's the difference?

apter | aster |

As an adjective apter

is (apt).

As a noun aster is

(l).

apter

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (apt)
  • * 1597 — , i 1
    • Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek
    Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
  • * 1844 —
    • Would you deign to be my instructress, I should prove an apter scholar than if taught by Signor Rappaccini himself.

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    aster

    English

    (wikipedia aster) (wikispecies)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A star.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
    • by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters and planets are caused and transported.
  • Any of several plants of the genus Aster ; one of its flowers.
  • * 1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), , Penguin 2011, p.120:
    • 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.
  • (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.

    • Derived terms

    * asteroid * China aster ()

    Related terms

    * astro-

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