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