Word: hygroreceptive
Part of speech: Adjective
Syllables: hy
grore
cep
tive
Definition: Exhibiting hygroreception; the ability to detect changes in the moisture and humidity content of an environment
Morphemes:
Affix: hygro-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: moisture
Affix: receptive
Language: en
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: receptus
Language: la
Decoded: receptus
Meaning: retaken, having been retaken; received, having been received
Affix: -īvus
Language: la
Decoded: -ivus
Meaning: suffix added to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning ‘doing; related to doing’