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• n  perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
• n  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'
• n  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
• n  a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire

• A pinwheel of inexhaustible ingenuity, he had the kids in the first film pursued by an army of giant thumbs ("I snap my fingers," says a nutty TV clown, "and my fingers snap you .
• Around a flashing, sputtering pinwheel of Parisian excitement last week spun this rumor: "The German cartels trusts are preparing to raid the world market.
• Armed with ever more powerful telescopes, these explorers of time and space have learned that the Milky Way is a huge, whirling pinwheel made of 100 billion or more stars; that .

• Aeonium haworthii
• pinwheel wind collector
• catherine wheel

News & Articles

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• Golden Galaxy | Space Wallpaper
  The face-on spiral galaxy M101, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, is seen at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths in this amazing space wallpaper taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope. This image was released June 10, 2013.
  June 12, 2013 - SPACE.com
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Glowing Pinwheel Galaxy
  The face-on spiral galaxy M101, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, is seen at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths in this image taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope. The picture is composed of images taken by XMM-Newton’s Optical Monitor telescope using different filters: red ...
  June 11, 2013 - Wired News
• Pinwheel In The Sky
  ESA The face-on Pinwheel spiral galaxy is seen at ultraviolet wavelengths in this image taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope. Also known as M101 , the galaxy lies 21 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major . It measures 170 000 light-years across – nearly twice the diameter of our own Milky Way Galaxy – and contains at least a trillion stars. About a billion of these stars ...
  June 10, 2013 - redOrbit

Quotes

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• Tim Lincecum in ESPN
  It's kind of a pinwheel action,Lincecum says in describing his pitching motion. "It's been told to me that [my delivery] is a combination of Kevin Brown and Sandy Koufax. It's the way I was taught by my father. My feeling is whatever works...
• Tennessee Williams in Washington Post
  She won by a couple of pinwheel gestures,Williams wrote. "But it was a photo finish."