whorled aster

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   North American perennial with apparently whorled leaves and showy white purple-tinged flowers

   SynonymsAster acuminatus

   Broaderaster

Questions about whorled aster

What does whorled aster mean?

whorled aster means "North American perennial with apparently whorled leaves and showy white purple-tinged flowers".

What is another word for whorled aster?

Close synonyms include Aster acuminatus. 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 whorled aster a common word?

whorled 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.