单词 | scissiparous |
释义 | scissiparousadj. Originally: (Biology) of or relating to reproduction by means of fission; (of an organism) reproducing by such means; = fissiparous adj.; (now rare). In later use also gen.: tending to split into two quite separate parts; characterized by such splitting. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [adjective] > by division fissiparous1835 tomiparous1842 scissiparous1845 tetraschistic1885 segmenting1912 plasmotomic1949 1845 Trans. Linn. Soc. 19 503 The observations of M. Thuret on the scissiparous division of Ectosperma. 1870 Nature 30 June 180/1 A note..contained observations on the scissiparous reproduction of the Naïdea. 1915 G. Salvadori tr. B. Varisco Know Thyself ii. 45 Scissiparous reproduction is neither easier nor more difficult to understand than any other form of reproduction. 1986 M. Dalwood tr. G. Bataille Erotism i. ix. 98 Continuity underlying each scissiparous division is always obvious. 1997 H. J. Spillers in E. Abel et al. Female Subj. in Black & White ii. 147 Such an insistence will operate as if we mean in fact a social division of labor, and so be it, but I mean division as the scissiparous effect within subjects rather than between them. 2003 D. B. Clarke Consumer Soc. & Postmodern City ii. 43 Apart from certain scissiparous life forms, which achieve immortality insofar as they reproduce by cloning, death is a strict inevitability. 2011 E. L. Santner Royal Remains iii. 83 The Austro-Hungarian Empire was undergoing a mad, scissiparous process of its own. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1845 |
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