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Asteridae
- noun - a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder
Asteridea
- - A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal.
Asterions
- noun - the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture
Asterisks
- noun - a star-shaped character * used in printing
- mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences"
Asterisms
- noun - (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation)
- (mineralogy) a star-shaped figure with six rays that is seen in some crystal structures under reflected or transmitted light
Asteroids
- noun - any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)
Asthenies
- noun - an abnormal loss of strength
Asthmatic
- adjective - a person suffering from asthma; "she is a chronic asthmatic"; "the painful gasps of a dying asthmatic"
- relating to breathing with a whistling sound
Astomatal
- adjective - lacking a stoma or stomata
Astounded
- verb - affect with wonder; "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!"
- filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses"