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Meaning of pinwheel

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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