firewheel
nounEtymology From fire + wheel.
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:
- Derived terms
- firewheel tree