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composite, alternate common name for Asteraceae or Compositae, the aster aster [Gr.,=star], common name for the Asteraceae (Compositae), the aster family, in North America, name for plants of the genus Aster, sometimes called wild asters, and for a related plant more correctly called China aster (Callistephus chinensis
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Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual -- he is a combina- tion of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of archi- tecture.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
Again, there is a composite kind of recognition involving false inference on the part of one of the characters, as in the Odysseus Disguised as a Messenger.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
He is followed by a sturdy fellow in a composite dress, which presents him under the double aspect of a groom and a gardener.
The Two Destinies by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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