firewheel

plural firewheels

1. Gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of southern US, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.

   Synonyms: Indian blanket, Indian blanketflower, Indian paintbrush, sundance

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

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   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