Fissiparous Definition

fĭ-sĭpər-əs
adjective
Reproducing by fission.
Webster's New World
Tending to break up into parts or break away from a main body; factious.
American Heritage Medicine

Causing division or fragmenting something.

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Origin of Fissiparous

  • An adaptation of the New Latin fissiparus, from fissus (“split”, “cleft”) + pariō (“I bring forth”) by mistaken analogy with vīviparus.

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