Definitions | leonid |
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- 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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