Definition of Pinwheel

1. Noun. Perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels.

Exact synonyms: Aeonium Haworthii
Group relationships: Aeonium, Genus Aeonium
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex

2. Noun. A wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim. "He spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'"
Generic synonyms: Wheel

3. Noun. A toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind.
Exact synonyms: Pinwheel Wind Collector
Generic synonyms: Plaything, Toy

4. Noun. A circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire.
Exact synonyms: Catherine Wheel
Generic synonyms: Firework, Pyrotechnic

Definition of Pinwheel

1. Noun. a fake flower with the stump, usually in plastic, for children; the flower spins round in the wind. ¹

2. Noun. a firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel ¹

3. Noun. A cogged (toothed) gear. ¹

4. Verb. To spin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pinwheel

1. to revolve at the end of a stick [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinwheel

pintsized
pintuck
pintucks
pintxo
pintxos
pinule
pinules
pinup
pinups
pinus
pinvoke
pinwale
pinwales
pinweed
pinweeds
pinwheel (current term)
pinwheel flower
pinwheel roll
pinwheeled
pinwheeling
pinwheels
pinwork
pinworks
pinworm
pinworm vaginitis
pinworms
pinwrench
pinwrenches
pinxit
piny

Literary usage of Pinwheel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Home-made Toys for Girls and Boys: Wooden and Cardboard Toys, Mechanical and by Albert Neely Hall (1915)
"... pinwheel shown in Fig. i is one of the best whirlers ever devised. ... pinwheel is the Simplest stick handle upon pinwheel to Make. which it is mounted ..."

2. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"The four black-on-white regions of the quilt are occupied by a black/white reversal of the pinwheel, namely, This "inverted" version of the pinwheel can be ..."

3. Learning About Weather by Jo Ellen Moore (2000)
"Make a pinwheel Materials • pattern on page 58, reproduced for each student ... Decorate the pinwheel with patterns or symbols representing weather (clouds ..."

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