English
Etymology
From Latin leo#Latin|leo.
Pronunciation
IPA: /'li:�nɪd/
Noun
leonid
- 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!
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