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noun 
  1. one of a shower of meteorites which fall from the area of sky around the constellation Leo in November
  • 1974: I wrote my first story about the ghost of a horse leaping from a cascade of flame just after the leonids had been more torrential than men had remembered them for centuries. " Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
Etymology: From Latin leoLatin, leo.


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