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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

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

2. a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim;
- Example: "he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'"

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, pinwheel wind collector]

4. a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire;
[syn: catherine wheel, pinwheel]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pinwheel n 1: perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels [syn: pinwheel, Aeonium haworthii] 2: 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: 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, pinwheel wind collector] 4: a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire [syn: catherine wheel, pinwheel]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "pinwheel": agate, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, doll, doll carriage, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw, knickknack, marble, marionette, mig, paper doll, pick-up sticks, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, rocking horse, sport, steelie, taw, teetotum, top, toy, toy soldier, trinket, whim-wham