Word: nestling
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: nes
tling
Definition: A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest.
Morphemes:
Affix: nest
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
Affix: -le
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: A suffix forming diminutives from other nouns.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.