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Noun: Leonid  lee-u-nid
  1. 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

Derived forms: Leonids

Encyclopedia: Leonid