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meteoric shower

American  

noun

Astronomy.
  1. meteor shower.


Etymology

Origin of meteoric shower

First recorded in 1825–35

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"The theory is that after the core formed there was a meteoric shower that struck the Earth," says Willbold.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2013

So science has had to come up with an explanation, and the answer currently favoured is - a meteoric shower.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2013

While the precious fallout from this meteoric shower lay scattered on the surface of the moon, on Earth the planet's internal activity had churned it into the mantle too.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2013

But fire was falling about them like a meteoric shower.

From Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

Why, then, did this meteoric shower powder Mesopotamia so densely and sprinkle a dust so impalpable over the Sudan?

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith

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