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Definition of Pinwheel
1. Noun. Perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels.
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'"
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.
4. Noun. A circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire.
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
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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