Usually means: Tending to split into parts.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. fissiparous: Merriam-Webster
  2. fissiparous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fissiparous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fissiparous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fissiparous: Vocabulary.com
  6. fissiparous: Wordnik
  7. fissiparous: Wiktionary
  8. fissiparous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fissiparous: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fissiparous: Dictionary.com
  11. Fissiparous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. fissiparous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. fissiparous: Rhymezone
  14. Fissiparous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. fissiparous: FreeDictionary.org
  16. fissiparous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. fissiparous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. fissiparous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. fissiparous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fissiparous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. fissiparous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. fissiparous: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fissiparous: A Word A Day

(Note: See fissiparousness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fissiparous)

adjective:  Factious, tending to break into pieces.
adjective:  Causing division or fragmenting something.
adjective:  (cytology) Of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two.

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