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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typical genus of starfishes of the family Asterinidæ. A. gibbosa is the gibbous starlet.
  • noun In botany, a genus of perisporiaceous fungi having the perithecia covered with or seated on a dark-colored radiating layer of hyphæ.

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