fissiparous
Americanadjective
adjective
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biology reproducing by fission
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having a tendency to divide into groups or factions
Other Word Forms
- fissiparously adverb
- fissiparousness noun
Etymology
Origin of fissiparous
Example Sentences
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But the walkout threat is a marked escalation from an ordinarily fissiparous newsroom.
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2022
The two are stepsisters-to-be—Tracy’s mother is set to marry Brooke’s father—and the slightness of that link feels right for the frail, fissiparous world that Baumbach likes to map.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 24, 2015
Like empires, world orders grow old, fissiparous, complacent and grumpy — despite the Champagne, the thrill is gone.
From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2015
Then there is the danger that Iraq's fissiparous character could drive it back into civil war.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 28, 2010
The league, in their view, was inherently fragile and fissiparous; if it had been founded a thousand years ago, it would have broken up well before the Pilgrims.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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