English
shooting star (meteor)
shooting star (Dodecatheon clevelandii)
Alternative forms
Noun
shooting star (plural shooting stars)
- A meteor, especially a streak of light in the night sky, caused by a meteoroid burning up as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
- Any of several wild flowering plants in the genus Dodecatheon, mostly found in Western North America.
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meteor
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- Korean: 유성 (ko) (yuseong) (流星 (ko)), 별똥 (byeolttong), 별똥별 (byeolttongbyeol)
- Kyrgyz: метеор (ky) (meteor)
- Malay: bintang beralih, tahi bintang, cirit bintang
- Mongolian: харвасан од (harvasan od), харвах од (harvah od)
- Navajo: sǫʼ ndaajeehí, sǫʼ yilwoł
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stjerneskudd n, stjerneskott n
- Ojibwe: anang-bangishin
- Polish: spadająca gwiazda f
- Portuguese: estrela cadente (pt) f
- Romanian: stea căzătoare (ro) f
- Russian: (lit.: falling star) па́дающая звезда́ (ru) f (pádajuščaja zvezdá)
- Slovak: padajúca hviezda f
- Slovene: utrinek m
- Spanish: estrella fugaz
- Swedish: fallande stjärna c, stjärnfall n
- Tagalog: bulalakaw
- Thai: Thai: ผีพุ่งใต้ (pĕe pûng dtâi)
- Turkish: kayan yıldız
- Ukrainian: па́даюча зі́рка f (pádajuča zírka)
- Welsh: seren wib f, seren llosgi
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