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Adjective: fissiparous  fi'si-pu-rus
  1. (biology) reproducing by fission
     
  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

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fishwife
fishworm
fish-worship
fishy
fissile
fissility
fission
fission bomb
fissionable
fissiparity
fissiparous
fissiped
fissiped mammal
Fissipedia
fissure
fissure of Rolando
fissure of Sylvius
Fissurella
Fissurella apertura
Fissurellidae
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