Word: prunings
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: pru
nings
Definition: Plural of pruning; cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
Morphemes:
Affix: prune
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: proignier
Language: fro
Decoded: proignier
Meaning: to trim the feathers with the beak
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.