splitter

[ split-er ]

noun
  1. a person or thing that splits.

  2. Biology Informal. a taxonomist who believes that classifications should emphasize differences between organisms and therefore favors a multiplicity of taxa (opposed to lumper).

Origin of splitter

1
First recorded in 1615–25; split + -er1

Words Nearby splitter

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How to use splitter in a sentence

  • I toured again, but this time I downsized from the luxury of my tour bus to a cold damp splitter van.

  • The young rail-splitter had also a knack of slaughtering hogs, for which he received thirty cents a day.

  • Skull-splitter, by way of diversion, plumped backward into the brook, and sat down in the cool pool up to his waist.

    Boyhood in Norway | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  • It seemed but half awake; and Skull-splitter imagined that it was a trifle cross, because its mother had waked it too early.

    Boyhood in Norway | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  • With an angry roar she rose on her hind legs and advanced against the unhappy Skull-splitter with two uplifted paws.

    Boyhood in Norway | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  • Get thee hence ere I break every bone in thy body; thou weigher of scruples, thou splitter of straws.