Hȳ'dro-mē'te-ors, n. pl.

n. pl. [From Gr. ὕδωρ, water, and μετέωρα, meteors, q. v.] Meteors or atmospheric phenomena dependent upon the vapor of water; — a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, &c., — used also in the singular. Nichol.