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pinwheel
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pinwheel has 4 senses
- pinwheel(n = noun.plant) aeonium haworthii - perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels; Array is a member of aeonium, genus aeonium
- pinwheel(n = noun.artifact) Array - 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'" is a kind of wheel
- pinwheel(n = noun.artifact) pinwheel wind collector - 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; Array is a kind of plaything, toy
- pinwheel(n = noun.artifact) catherine wheel - a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire; Array is a kind of firework, pyrotechnic
is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex
THESAURUS
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-whamROGET THESAURUS
pinwheel
Rotation
N rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an axis, circulation, roll, circumrotation, circumvolution, circumgyration, volutation, circination, turbination, pirouette, convolution, verticity, whir, whirl, eddy, vortex, whirlpool, gurge, countercurrent, Maelstrom, Charybdis, Ixion, cyclone, tornado, whirlwind, dust devil, spin-out, axis, axis of rotation, swivel, pivot, pivot point, axle, spindle, pin, hinge, pole, arbor, bobbin, mandrel, axle shaft, gymbal, hub, hub of rotation, helix, helical motion, angular momentum, angular velocity, revolutions per minute, RPM, centrifugal force, surge, vertigo, dizzy round, coriolus force, carousel, merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, top, dreidel, teetotum, gyroscope, turntable, lazy suzan, screw, whirligig, rollingstone, water wheel, windmill, wheel, pulley wheel, roulette wheel, potter's wheel, pinwheel, gear, roller, flywheel, jack, caster, centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, bench centrifuge, refrigerated centrifuge, gas centrifuge, microfuge, drill, augur, oil rig, wagon wheel, wheel, tire, tyre, trochilics, whirling dervish, rotating, rotary, rotary, circumrotatory, trochilic, vertiginous, gyratory, vortical, vorticose, head over heels, round and round, like a horse in a mill.
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