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fissiparous|fɪˈsɪpərəs|
[f. mod.L. type fissipar-us (f. fissi- + L. parĕre to bring forth; incorrectly on analogy of vīviparus) + -ous.]
a. Of organisms: Producing new individuals by fission.
b. Of or pertaining to the process of reproduction by fission. Hence fiˈssiparously adv.
1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 145/2 The first of these modes of reproduction is entitled fissiparous. 1872Nicholson Palæont. 94 The polypes produced fissiparously resemble one another in organization. 1887W. Hooper in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 464 Organisms which are fissiparous, and when cut in two form two fresh independent organisms.
transf.1874Morley Compromise (1886) 70 All error is what physiologists term fissiparous. 1890Times 21 Nov. 9/2 Scotch Home Rule and, perhaps, half-a-dozen other fissiparous developments of ‘national life’.
So ˌfissipaˈration, the process of fissiparous reproduction. fiˈssiparism = prec. ˌfissiˈparity, the attribute of being fissiparous. fiˈssiparousness = fissiparity (in examples fig.).
1864Athenæum No. 1920. 216/1 Fissiparation and gemmation. 1868E. P. Wright Ocean World iv. 77 This is what Naturalists term generation by division—fissiparism or fission. 1872Dana Corals 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. 1891Monist I. 627 The change from fissiparity to sexuality. 1931A. 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. 1961Times 14 Jan. 7/6 India, haunted as it is by the fear of ‘fissiparousness’. |