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Pinwheel

noun

Perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels. Synonym: Aeonium haworthii.

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

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. Synonym: pinwheel wind collector.

A circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire. Synonym: catherine wheel.

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"Pinwheel" Quotes from Famous Books

... girl in soft despair, and made a futile clutch; but she could not arrest the flight of Clarence, she merely upset him, turning him for an instant into a furry pinwheel, whirling through mid-air, landing in her yard, rebounding like a rubber ball, and disappearing, with one flying leap, into a narrow opening in ...

— The Green Mouse • Robert W. Chambers

... easily, and Oliver noted with fresh amazement that the term seemed to come from her as naturally and almost conventionally as if she had every legal American right to use it. "Let me, dear." And Oliver felt his head begin to go round like a pinwheel. ...

— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet

... Square Eight-point Design Five Stripes Fool's Square Four Points Greek Cross Greek Square Hexagonal Interlaced Blocks Maltese Cross Memory Blocks Memory Circle New Four Patch New Nine Patch Octagon Pinwheel Square Red Cross Ribbon Squares Roman Cross Sawtooth Patchwork Square and Swallow Square and a Half Squares and Stripes Square and Triangle Stripe Squares The Cross The Diamond Triangle Puzzle Triangular Triangle ...

— Quilts - Their Story and How to Make Them • Marie D. Webster

Words linked to "Pinwheel" : suffrutex, plaything, subshrub, Aeonium, toy, genus Aeonium, wheel, pyrotechnic, firework