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Aster vs Alexis - What's the difference?

aster | alexis |

As a noun aster

is (l).

As a proper noun alexis is

.

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-

    Anagrams

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    alexis

    English

    Proper noun

    (wikipedia Alexis) (es)
  • .
  • * 1877 , Act I:
    • To the maid of his choice, / With a heart palpitating, / Comes Alexis the brave.
  • , transferred from the male name and used since the 1940s.
  • * 1990 , , Vespers , Mandarin (1991), ISBN 0749305967, page 120:
    • He wondered how parents who had named their daughter Alexis could possibly have known she'd turn out to be such a beauty.
    English unisex given names ----