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Orionids

[uh-rahy-uh-nidz, awr-ee-oh-, ohr-]

noun (used with a plural verb) Astronomy.

a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Orionid meteor shower) visible during October, and having its apparent origin in the constellation Orion.

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