pinwheel

1 perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels [syn: Aeonium haworthii]

2 circular-shaped firework; spins round and round [syn: catherine wheel]

English

Noun

1. a fake flower with the stump, usually in plastic, for children; the flower spins round in the wind.
2. a firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel

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Quotations

*1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 125

• The sun blazing late in the afternoon, this long hilarious day like a pinwheel inexhaustibly throwing off sparks.

• Pinwheel (TV series), a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1979-1989
  • Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later be the Nickelodeon channel
• Pinwheel (origami), a piece of folded paper used in the Tamatebako
• Pinwheel (cryptography), a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits
• Pinwheel (band), a band created by Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard
• Pinwheel Galaxy (astronomy)
• Pinwheel (toy), a children's toy that spins when blown
• Pinwheel calculator (part of), a type of early mechanical arithmetic machine
• Pinwheel (nautical), an (outdated) procedure to manoever an aircraft carrier ship with the aid of jet aircraft attached to the ends of its flight deck
• "Pinwheels", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel

• The Wartenberg wheel, a neurological medical device
• The Pinwheel Region, part of United Synagogue Youth covering the Pacific Northwest

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