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aster

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Cross section of a sunflower, a member of the aster family aster [Gr.,=star], common name for the Asteraceae (Compositae), the aster family, in North America, name for plants…

Ari Aster

Filmmaker Ari Aster won several critics' awards for his debut feature, the horror-soaked family melodrama Hereditary (2018). Originally from New York, Aster spent his teen years in New Mexico and…

frostweed

(Encyclopedia) frostweed or frostwort, North American woodland flowers (Helianthemum canadense and sometimes other related species) of the family Cistaceae (rockrose family). In cold weather,…

fleabane

(Encyclopedia) fleabane, any plant of the genus Erigeron, widely distributed herbs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), especially abundant in temperate and mountainous regions of North America.…

blister beetle

(Encyclopedia) blister beetle, common name for certain soft-bodied, usually black or brown, mostly elongate and cylindrical beetles belonging to the family Meloidae. Blister beetles are common…

corn borer

(Encyclopedia) corn borer or European corn borer, common name for the larva of a moth of the family Pyralidae, introduced from S Europe into the Boston area in 1917. The corn borer, Ostrinia…

Brewer's: Poetaster

A very inferior poet. The suffix—aster is depreciative (compare “disaster”). At one time we had also “grammatic-aster,” “politic-aster,” “critic-aster,” and some others. (Italian,…

Maitrayana-Brahmaya-Upanishad: Sixth Prapathaka

Sixth Prapatraka1. He (the Self) bears the Self in two ways, as he who is Prâna (breath), and as he who is Aditya (the sun). Therefore there are two paths for him, within and without, and…

Sara Teasdale: The Garden

The GardenMy heart is a garden tired with autumn, Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark, In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April, The drench of rains and a snow-…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Nature's Changes

by EmilyDickinsonThe TulipNature's Changes Nature's Changes The springtime's pallid landscape Will glow like bright bouquet, Though drifted deep in parian The village lies to-day.…