Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See meteor.
- n. Any of several North American perennial herbs of the genus Dodecatheon, having nodding flowers with reflexed petals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as falling-star. See star.
- n. The American cowslip. Dodecatheon Meadia: so called from the bright nodding flowers, which, from the lobes of the corolla being reflexed, present an appearance of rapid motion.
Wiktionary
- n. A meteor, especially a streak of light in the night sky, caused by a meteoroid burning up as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
- n. Any of several wild plants in the Dodecatheon genus of flowering plants mostly found in Western North America.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. The American cowslip (Dodecatheon Meadia). See under Cowslip.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
Examples
“I was still staring at this phenomenon when the long streak of a shooting star brought my mind back to our heat-shield problem.”
“In just a few hours that would beAtlantis …a shooting star blazing across the Pacific with a tail of ionized gas a thousand miles long.”
“It flew from his grasp like a shooting star and folk clamoured and feared for Sharrkan; but, as the spear flew near him, he put out his hand and caught it in full flight to the amazement of all who saw the sight.”
“But he knew that in the Graveyard of Lost Ships, it was a shooting star in the night sky, a perfect omen for making wishes come true.”
“These were lapel pins fashioned in the shape of the official astronaut symbol, a three-rayed shooting star passing through an ellipse.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shooting star’.
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Stars
star, gold star, superstar, Star Wars, Star Trek, star chart, five-pointed star, six-pointed star, eight-pointed star, Star Jones, Starbuck, Starbucks and 47 more...
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green and blue and black and red
i love the night
green lights, red lights, telephone poles, tintinnabulation, honeysuckle, pittsburgh smog, shooting star
john The Lockheed P/F-80, the first operational jet fighter used by the U.S. More on Wikipedia. Dec 29, 2008
treeseed folk name for a number of different and often unrelated flowers, among them Dodecatheon clevelandii
Folk name for a meteor Jan 20, 2008