Leonid
Pronunciation : Le"o*nid
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [From Leo: cf. F. l?onides, pl.] (Astron.)
Definition : Defn: 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