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fissiparous (adjective) -
: tending to break or split up into parts : divisive
Source : Merriam-Webster
Etymology : When it first entered English in the 19th century, fissiparous was concerned with reproduction. In biology, a fissiparous organism is one that produces new individuals by fission; that is, by dividing into separate parts, each of which becomes a unique organism. (Most strains of bacteria do this.) Fissiparous comes from Latin fissus, the past participle of findere ("to split"), and parere, meaning "to give birth to" or "to produce." Other parere offspring refer to other forms of reproduction, including oviparous ("producing eggs that hatch outside the body") and viviparous ("producing living young instead of eggs"). By the end of the 19th century fissiparous had acquired a figurative meaning, describing something that breaks into parts or causes something else to break into parts
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