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shooting star

shoot·ing star (plural shoot·ing stars)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. astronomy 
Same as  meteor (sense 2)


2. N American primrose: a plant with slender flower stems rising above the leaves. Flowers: drooping, with backward-curving petals. Native to: North America.  Genus Dodecatheon.

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