bolide

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
bolide
    n 1: an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) [syn:
         {bolide}, {fireball}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bolide \Bo"lide\, n. [F. See {Bolis}.]
   A kind of meteor; a bolis.
   [1913 Webster]
    

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