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Pinwheel

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Noun

1. aeonium haworthii, pinwheel

perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels

2. pinwheel

a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim

Example Sentences:
'he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on Go''

3. pinwheel, pinwheel wind collector

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. catherine wheel, pinwheel

a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pinwheel

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noun
1.  another name for Catherine wheel (sense 1)
2. 
a cogwheel whose teeth are formed by small pins projecting either axially or radially from the rim of the wheel
3. US and Canadian
a toy consisting of plastic or paper vanes attached to a stick in such a manner that they revolve like the sails of a windmill
. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): windmill, whirligig

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Pinwheel

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noun
1. 
a small wheel with variously colored vanes of paper, plastic, etc., pinned to a stick so as to revolve in the wind
2. 
a fireworks device that revolves and throws off colored lights when set off
verb intransitive
3. 
to rotate as a pinwheel does; whirl; spin

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pinwheel

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n.
1. A toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic pinned to a stick so that they revolve when blown on.
2. A firework that forms a rotating wheel of colored flames. Also called catherine wheel.
3. A wheel with a circle of pins at right angles to its face, used as a tripping device.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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