Word: yearlings
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: year
lings
Definition: Plural of yearling; a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth
Morphemes:
Affix: year
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
Affix: -le
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: A frequentative suffix of verbs, indicating repetition or continuousness.
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 a word referring to a specific decade in the Gregorian calendar. Appended to the first year of the decade.