Taster vs Aster - What's the difference?
taster | aster |
That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
One who tastes anything, especially food, wine etc., for quality.
* Dryden
(zoology) A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.
A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide
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(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.
As nouns the difference between taster and aster
is that taster is that in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like while aster is (l).taster
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thy tutor be thy taster , ere thou eat.
Anagrams
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Noun
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.