leonid means any meteor of a meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Leo in November. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
leonid is pronounced /ˈliː.ə.nɪd/.
Etymology
From Latin Leō (“lion; the constellation Leo”, stem Leōn-) + -id.
noun
- Any meteor of a meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Leo in November.“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.”
name
- A male given name, a transliteration of a common East Slavic name (notably that of the first two Ukrainian presidents, Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, as well as Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev).