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FISSIPARITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The tendency to break into parts
Example:
the fissiparity of religious sects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fissiparity" is a kind of...):
divisibility (the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Reproduction of some multicellular organisms by division, as in the case of some starfish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("fissiparity" is a kind of...):
agamogenesis; asexual reproduction (reproduction without the fusion of gametes)
