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leonid

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Le=o=nid

CIDE DICTIONARY

leonidn. [From Leo: cf. F. léonides, pl.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

leonid, n. any of the meteors that seem to radiate from the direction of the constellation Leo.

Etymology
L leo (see LEO) leonis + -ID(3)

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