[syn: catherine wheel, pinwheel]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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