aster

noun
🔊/ˈæstə(r)/
🔊/ˈæstər/
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  1. a garden plant that has pink, purple, blue or white flowers with many long narrow petals紫菀(园艺植物)
    Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘a star’): via Latin from Greek astēr ‘star’.