Word: earthrises
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: earth
ri
ses
Definition: Plural of earthrise; a photograph of Earth and some of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission
Morphemes:
Affix: earth
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
Affix: rise
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
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.