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    METEOR STREAM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    meteor shower; meteor stream

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural phenomena

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

    atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

    Meronyms (parts of "meteor stream"):

    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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