pinwheel

2 definitions found

pinwheel - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

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