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Pinwheel Common

Pinwheel has 6 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels

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

4

a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire

5

An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.