Word: greenschists
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: greens
chists
Definition: Plural of greenschist. A metamorphic rock formed at low temperature and pressure, often with an abundance of green minerals such as chlorite, serpentine, and epidote.
Morphemes:
Affix: green
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
Affix: schist
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: schistos lapis
Language: la
Decoded: schistos lapis
Meaning: the stone that is easy to split
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.