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English noun: pinwheel | |||
| 1. | pinwheel (plant) perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels | ||
| Synonyms | Aeonium haworthii | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | subshrub, suffrutex | ||
| Member meronym | Aeonium, genus Aeonium | ||
| 2. | pinwheel (artifact) a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim | ||
| Samples | He spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | wheel | ||
| 3. | pinwheel (artifact) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | pinwheel wind collector | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | plaything, toy | ||
| 4. | pinwheel (artifact) a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire | ||
| Synonyms | catherine wheel | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | firework, pyrotechnic | ||
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