[f. COMET + -OID.]
† a. A name proposed for the asteroids (quot. 1805). Obs. b. A name proposed by Prof. Kirkwood of Indiana for luminous meteors.
1805. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XIX. 535. Would not the term cometoids correspond best with the phenomena?
1871. Kirkwood, in Brit. Assoc. Rep. I. 49. The motions of some luminous meteors (or cometoids, as perhaps they might be called).
