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firewheel

firewheel noun: gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of southern US, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.

firewheel: gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of southern US, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico
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Noun

firewheel (plural firewheels)

  1. Gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of southern US, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.
  2. A wheel of or on fire.
    • Ashes from the firewheels, spread through the fields, guarantee bumper crops for the coming seasons.1974, Rundschau, volume 4
    • Weather conditions worsened and the bombers flew into a huge electrical storm that turned their propellers into giant firewheels, as one pilot reported, and blew them all over the sky.2009, Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945

Synonyms of firewheel

Forms of firewheel

pluralfirewheels

Origin of firewheel

From fire + wheel.

Words formed from firewheel

Phrases with firewheel

Questions about firewheel

What does firewheel mean?
Firewheel means gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of southern US, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.
What part of speech is firewheel?
Firewheel is a noun.
What is the plural of firewheel?
The plural of firewheel is firewheels.

Words near firewheel in the dictionary

  1. firewatchers
  2. firewater
  3. firewaters
  4. fireweed
  5. fireweeds
  6. firewheel
  7. firewheel tree
  8. firewheel trees
  9. firewheels
  10. firewhirl
  11. firewhirls

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