Word: butterflyfishes
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: bu
tter
fly
fi
shes
Definition: Plural of butterflyfish; tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
Morphemes:
Affix: butter
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: butt
Language: en
Decoded: butt
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
Affix: -er
Language: en
Decoded: -er
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: A person or thing to which the root verb can satisfactorily be done.
Affix: fly
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys)
Affix: fish
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Affix: -es
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the regular plural of nouns