Aster vs Tansy - What's the difference?
aster | tansy |
(obsolete) A star.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
Any of several plants of the genus Aster ; one of its flowers.
* 1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), , Penguin 2011, p.120:
(biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum , especially .
* 1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 365:
(uncountable, obsolete) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish.
As a noun aster
is (l).As a proper noun tansy is
.aster
Noun
(en noun)- by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters and planets are caused and transported.
- 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.
Derived terms
* asteroid * China aster ()Anagrams
* ----tansy
English
(wikipedia tansy)Noun
- The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.
- (Pepys)