Word: ashfalls
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: ash
falls
Definition: Plural of ashfall; of Antelope County in northeastern Nebraska are rare fossil sites of the type called lagerstätten that, due to extraordinary local conditions, capture a moment in time ecological "snapshot" in a range of well-preserved fossilized organisms
Morphemes:
Affix: ash
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
Affix: fall
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
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.