hydrid

plural hydrids

1. archaicArchaic form of hydride.

plural Hydrids

1. astronomyAny of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Hydra.

   a similarly bright meteor at 12ʰ 33ᵐ was probably an α Hydrid

   1902, “Section for the Observation of Meteors”, in Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, volume 12, page 10

   1 more example

   The radiant analysis that included orbits from the Croatian Meteor Network Catalogues of Orbits 2007 to 2010 plus the orbits from the SonotaCo catalogues for 2007 to 2011 revealed a possible new Hydrid stream with radiant running parallel to, but distinct from, the sigma Hydrids.

   2013, D. Šegon et al., “A possible new meteor shower - η Hydrids”, in WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization