noun
- Perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels.
- synonyms: Aeonium haworthii
- A wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim.
- usage: "he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'"
- 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
- A circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire.
- synonyms: catherine wheel
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