meteoroid, meteor
(noun) (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth’s atmosphere
Source: WordNet® 3.1
meteoroid (plural meteoroids)
(astronomy) A relatively small (sand- to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in a star system that produces a meteor when it hits the atmosphere
• celestial object
• micrometeoroid
Source: Wiktionary
Me"te*or*oid, n. Etym: [Meteor + -oid.] (Astron.)
Definition: 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. These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call meteoroids. H. A. Newton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 June 2025
(noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
