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meteoroid

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Noun
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me=te=or=oid

CIDE DICTIONARY

meteoroidn. [Meteor + -oid.].
     A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor.  [1913 Webster]
    "These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call meteoroids."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

meteoroid, n. any small body moving in the solar system that becomes visible as it passes through the earth's atmosphere as a meteor.

Derivative
meteoroidal adj.

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