fissiparous

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Factious, tending to break into pieces.
    — That nation, inescapably, is Germany, the largest, richest, most important, perhaps most admirable and certainly most pivotal nation in the European Union, the nation around which a flourishing Europe will always centre and the nation upon which a fissiparous Europe always risks foundering.
  2. Causing division or fragmenting something.
    — fissiparous tendencies
  3. Of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two.
    — Reproduction may be divided into two main classes, namely, sexual and asexual. The latter is effected in many ways—by the formation of buds of various kinds, and by fissiparous generation, that is by spontaneous or artificial division.

词形变化

more fissiparous comparative most fissiparous superlative

词源

An adaptation of New Latin fissiparus, from fissus (“split, cleft”) + pariō (“to bring forth”) by analogy with vīviparus.
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