meteor shower

English Thesaurus

1. a transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere (noun.phenomenon)

hypernym	:	atmospheric phenomenon,
definition	:	a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere (noun.phenomenon)

part holonym	:	meteor, shooting star,
definition	:	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 (noun.phenomenon)