new england aster

1. 1.

   common perennial of eastern North America having showy purplish flowers; a parent of the Michaelmas daisy

   SynonymsAster novae-angliae

   Broaderaster

Questions about new england aster

What does new england aster mean?

new england aster means "common perennial of eastern North America having showy purplish flowers; a parent of the Michaelmas daisy".

What is another word for new england aster?

Close synonyms include Aster novae-angliae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is new england aster a common word?

new england aster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.