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leonid
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| leonidas
| leonide fedorovitch massine
leonid
CIDE DICTIONARY
leonid, n. [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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