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Adjective: fissiparous  fi'si-pu-rus
  1. (biology) reproducing by fission
    "Certain fissiparous organisms can divide into two or more parts, each becoming a separate organism"
     
  2. Having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude
    "a fissiparous faction";
    - breakaway, separatist

See also: asexual, independent, nonsexual

Encyclopedia: Fissiparous