WOOD ASTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood aster mean? 

• WOOD ASTER (noun)
  The noun WOOD ASTER has 1 sense:

1. any of several asters of eastern North America usually growing in woods

  Familiarity information: WOOD ASTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOD ASTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several asters of eastern North America usually growing in woods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("wood aster" is a kind of...):

aster (any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wood aster"):

Aster cordifolius; heart-leaved aster (perennial wood aster of eastern North America)

Aster divaricatus; white wood aster (rhizomatous perennial wood aster of eastern North America with white flowers)

Aster macrophyllus; large-leaved aster (tufted perennial wood aster of North America; naturalized in Europe)