Word: vortographs
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: vor
to
graphs
Definition: Plural of vortograph; was an early 20th-century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism
Morphemes:
Affix: vortex
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: vortex
Language: la
Decoded: vortex
PoS: Noun
Meaning: whirl, whirlpool, eddy, vortex
Affix: -graph
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: that is drawn or shown
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.