pinwheel, pinwheel wind collector
(noun) 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
pinwheel
(noun) 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’”
pinwheel, Aeonium haworthii
(noun) perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pinwheel (plural pinwheels)
An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
A firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel.
A cogged (toothed) gear.
A pastry which resembles the artificial flowers above, with some filling or topping in the center.
Any food product consisting of layers (for example of pastry and sweet filling, or of bread and meat) rolled into a spiral, visually similar to a cinnamon roll.
pinwheel (third-person singular simple present pinwheels, present participle pinwheeling, simple past and past participle pinwheeled)
To spin.
Source: Wiktionary
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
