Amphiaster

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Amphiaster \Am"phi*as`ter\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + 'asth`r a
     star.] (Biol.)
     The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division,
     consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle
     of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the
     spindle.


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