fissiparousadj.
/fᵻˈsɪp(ə)rəs/, U.S. /fᵻˈsɪp(ə)rəs/ 1. Of organisms: producing new individuals by fission.
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1887 W. Hooper in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 464 Organisms which are fissiparous, and when cut in two form two fresh independent organisms.
2. Of or relating to the process of reproduction by fission. Also in extended use.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [adjective] > by division
fissiparous1835
tomiparous1842
scissiparous1845
tetraschistic1885
segmenting1912
plasmotomic1949
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 145/2 The first of these modes of reproduction is entitled fissiparous.
1874 J. Morley On Compromise 56 All error is what physiologists term fissiparous.
1890 Times 21 Nov. 9/2 Scotch Home Rule and, perhaps, half-a-dozen other fissiparous developments of ‘national life’.
Derivatives
ˌfissipaˈration n. the process of fissiparous reproduction.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > by division
fission1846
scissiparity1857
fissiparation1864
fissuration1867
fissiparism1868
fissiparity1872
cleavage1876
fragmentation1881
schizogony1887
blastogenesis1889
nuclear fission1889
schizogenesis1891
transfission1891
heterokinesis1893
homoeokinesis1893
multiple fission1896
binary fission1897
plasmotomy1902
1864 Athenæum No. 1920. 216/1 Fissiparation and gemmation.
fiˈssiparism n. = fissiparation n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > by division
fission1846
scissiparity1857
fissiparation1864
fissuration1867
fissiparism1868
fissiparity1872
cleavage1876
fragmentation1881
schizogony1887
blastogenesis1889
nuclear fission1889
schizogenesis1891
transfission1891
heterokinesis1893
homoeokinesis1893
multiple fission1896
binary fission1897
plasmotomy1902
1868 E. P. Wright Ocean World iv. 77 This is what Naturalists term generation by division—fissiparism or fission.
ˌfissiˈparity n. the attribute of being fissiparous.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > by division
fission1846
scissiparity1857
fissiparation1864
fissuration1867
fissiparism1868
fissiparity1872
cleavage1876
fragmentation1881
schizogony1887
blastogenesis1889
nuclear fission1889
schizogenesis1891
transfission1891
heterokinesis1893
homoeokinesis1893
multiple fission1896
binary fission1897
plasmotomy1902
1872 J. D. Dana Corals & Coral Islands i. 57 This dividing one's self in two, for the sake of an increase of population, is the process called spontaneous fission or fissiparity.
1891 Monist 1 627 The change from fissiparity to sexuality.
fiˈssiparously adv.
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1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 94 The polypes produced fissiparously resemble one another in organization.
fiˈssiparousness n. = fissiparity n. (in examples figurative).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > of new individuals by fission
fissiparousness1931
1931 A. L. Rowse Politics & Younger Generation x. 295 In England and France the [Communist] party has been reduced to a negligible quantity by its own fissiparousness.
1961 Times 14 Jan. 7/6 India, haunted as it is by the fear of ‘fissiparousness’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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