Word: nightcrawlers
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: night
craw
lers
Definition: Plural of nightcrawler; terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
Morphemes:
Affix: night
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Nightfall.
Affix: crawl
Language: en
Meaning: to move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground
Affix: -er
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ārius
Language: la
Decoded: -arius
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form adjectives from nouns or numerals.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.