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Definition of Fissiparous
1. Adjective. Reproducing by fission.
2. Adjective. Having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude. "A breakaway faction"
Definition of Fissiparous
1. a. Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.
Definition of Fissiparous
1. Adjective. Factious, tending to break into pieces. ¹
2. Adjective. Causing division or fragmenting something. ¹
3. Adjective. (biology) Of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fissiparous
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Medical Definition of Fissiparous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissiparous
Literary usage of Fissiparous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1843)
"The same theory of fissiparous reproduction he also applies to the formation of the
... The author considers, lastly, the subject of the fissiparous ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"One fibril appeared thus, by fissiparous generation, to be giving origin to two.
... 13) as inherent in the hyaline—the subject of fissiparous reproduction ..."
3. Principles of Zoölogy: Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution by Louis Agassiz, Augustus Addison Gould (1870)
"... AND fissiparous REPRODUCTION. 328. WE have shown in the preceding chapter,
that ovulation, and the development of embryos from eggs, is common lo all ..."
4. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of by Richard Owen, Royal College of Surgeons of England Museum (1838)
"SUBDIVISION I. ORGANS OF GENERATION. A. fissiparous AND ... from which it has
been separated: this property, on which fissiparous generation depends, ..."
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