pinwheel

== English == === Etymology === From pin + wheel. === Pronunciation === === Noun === pinwheel (plural pinwheels) (engineering) A cogged (toothed) gear. A toy for children, comprising an artificial (usually plastic) stem and a flower that spins round in the wind like a tiny windmill. (pyrotechnics, US, Canada) A firework that spins in the shape of a spinning wheel. Synonym: Catherine wheel (cooking) A pastry made by laying out dough flat, smearing a topping over it and rolling it up into a spiral, then baking it, resulting in a swirl of filling. (cooking) Any food product consisting of layers (for example of pastry and sweet filling, or of bread and meat) rolled into a spiral. Synonyms: roll, rollup, swirl ==== Derived terms ==== pinwheel flower (Tabernaemontana divaricata) pinwheel mushroom (Marasmius rotula) pinwheel sandwich Wartenberg pinwheel ==== Translations ==== === Verb === pinwheel (third-person singular simple present pinwheels, present participle pinwheeling, simple past and past participle pinwheeled) (ambitransitive) To spin. === References ===