pinwheel

Noun

• a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire

• 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

• 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'
    

• perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  catherine wheel , pinwheel wind collector , Aeonium haworthii