Word: sloughings
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: sloughings
Definition: Plural of sloughing; cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
Morphemes:
Affix: slough
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To shed (skin).
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.
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.