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assa-foetida fetid-mastic, botanical Latin from Persian azu, and Latin feotida.<br />

assamensis -is -e, assamicus -a -um from Assam in India.<br />

asseliformis resembling Wood-louse<br />

assicul-, assiculus Latin assiculus, little axis.<br />

assimilis -is -e resembling, like unto, similar, related (to another species), from Latin adsimulo, adsimulare,<br />

adsimulavu, adsimulatum.<br />

assiniboinensis -is -e from the region of Assinboine mountain, Alberta, Canada; or Assinboia,<br />

Saskatchewan, Canada.<br />

assoanus -a -um from Aswan, Egypt.<br />

assul-, assula, -assula Latin assula, a splinter, a wood shaving, a chip.<br />

assurgens, asurgenti- ascending, standing up, rising upwards, sprawling, clambering, present participle of<br />

adsurgo, adsurgere, adsurrexi, adsurrectum.<br />

assurgentiflorus -a -um assurgentiflor'us (as-er-jen-ti-FLOR-us) <strong>with</strong> flowers ascending, or presenting upwards,<br />

from Latin adsurgens and florum.<br />

assyriacus -a -um, assyricus -a -um of Assyrian origin, from Assyria (northern Iraq).<br />

ast- Greek αστηρ, aster, a star, meteor.<br />

astac-, astaco, astacus, -astacus Greek αστακος, astakos, a lobster.<br />

Astartea for Astarte, the Syrian equivalent of Venus (Ishtar).<br />

Astelia stemless, from Greek α-στηλη, astele (some of the genus are epiphytes).<br />

astelifolius -a -um Astelia-leaved, from Astelia and Latin folium.<br />

aster, -aster, astero Greek αστηρ, astēr, astron, a star, from P.I.E. root *ǝster, ster- 2), star.<br />

-aster, -astra, -astrum, -istrum Latin diminutive suffix attached to nouns and adjectives <strong>with</strong> derogatory or<br />

pejorative implications, indicating an inferiority or an incomplete resemblance, or wildness, often applied to a<br />

wild relative of a cultivated plant, often used as suffix <strong>with</strong> a generic name, as Veronicastrum, Cotoneaster, or<br />

Oleaster, a bastard olive. Possibly from P.I.E. root ster- 4), barren, sterile, and possibly related to Latin sterilis,<br />

unfruitful. Also translated as star-, sellate-, from Greek αστηρ, αστηρος, aster, asteros, Latin astrum, astri.<br />

Aster As'ter (AS-ter, AS-tir, or A-ster) New Latin, from Latin, aster, from Greek αστηρ, αστερος, aster, asteros,<br />

a star, a meteor, an aster, for the radiated flower heads resembling little stars when viewed from above.<br />

(Asteraceae)<br />

Asteraceae Astera'ceae (as-ter-AY-see-ee) from the genus name, Aster, and -aceae, the standardized Latin suffix<br />

of plant family names.<br />

Asteranthera star-flowered, from Greek στηρ-ανθος, aster-anthos, for the star-like disposition of the anthers.<br />

asterias star-like, from Greek αστηρ, αστερος, aster, asteros, badly translated in one source as Star-fish,<br />

(Aster = a star)<br />

asterictos unsupported, weak, from Greek ασηρικος, asterikos.<br />

astericus resembling the aster, or a small star, from αστηρ, aster, a star and -iscus, Greek diminutive suffix.<br />

asterocarpus having star-like fruit<br />

asterioides, asterodes, asteroides astero'ides (as-tir-ee-OY-deez, or as-ter-OH-i-dees) Aster-like, from Latin<br />

aster, from Greek αστηρ, aster, a star; an aster type plant, taken by Linnaeus to be Aster amellus, and -oides, -<br />

οειδες, adjective suffix for nouns: like, resemble.<br />

Asteriscus small-star, from ασερισκος, asteriskos.<br />

Asteromoea resembling Aster, from Greek αστηρ-οµοιος, aster-omoios.<br />

Asterophora star-bearing, from Greek αστηρ-φορα, aster-phora.<br />

asterophorus in a popular etymology, badly translated as shining, star-like, properly star bearing.<br />

asterosporus -a -um <strong>with</strong> star shaped spore, from Greek αστερος-σπορος, asteros-sporos, from Greek and<br />

σπορος, sporos, seed, the act of sowing in reference to the blunt spines on the spore.<br />

asterothrichus, asterothrix <strong>with</strong> stellate hairs<br />

astes, -astes Greek αστης, astes, a singer; one who (does something).<br />

asthen- Greek ασθενια, asthenia, weakness, feebleness, sickness.<br />

Asthenotherum poor-harvest, from Greek ασθενης-θερος, asthenes-theros.<br />

asthenostachyus, asthenostachys sparsely or weakly eared or spiked<br />

asthenus weak, frail<br />

asthma, -asthma, asthmat- Greek ασθµα, asthma, short drawn breath, panting, gasping.<br />

asthmaticus -a -um of asthma, preventing asthma, from Greek ασθµα, asthma, for its medicinal use for<br />

shortage of breath.<br />

astichus not arranged in rows

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