noun
1. perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
• Syn: ↑Aeonium haworthii
• Member Holonyms: ↑Aeonium, ↑genus Aeonium
2. a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim
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he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'
• Hypernyms: ↑wheel
3. 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
• Syn: ↑pinwheel wind collector
4. a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire
• Syn: ↑catherine wheel
• Hypernyms: ↑firework, ↑pyrotechnic
Useful english dictionary. 2012.