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LEONID
Le"o*nid, n. Etym: [From Leo: cf. F. léonides, pl.] (Astron.)
Definition: 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 shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTUITIVELY
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