METEOR SHOWER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere

Synonyms:

meteor shower; meteor stream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("meteor shower" is a kind of...):

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

Meronyms (parts of "meteor shower"):

meteor; shooting star (a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode)

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