FISSIPAROUS

PRONUNCIATION: (fi-SIP-uh-ruhs)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Tending to break into parts.
2. Reproducing by biological fission.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fissi- (cleft) + -parous (bearing, producing). Earliest documented use: 1835.
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MISSIPAROUS - giving rise to a great river

FISHIPAROUS - Latin for "icthyogenetic"

FISSIPOROUS - full of cracks, and water goes right through it, too