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1. (n.) Leonid
any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
Etymology: (1875–80; < NL Leonidēs= L Leōn-, s. of LeōLeo1+-idēs -id1)
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1. (noun) leonid
one of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo
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