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What does fissiparous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Factious, tending to break into pieces
  2. Causing division or fragmenting something (often appearing in the collocation "fissiparous tendencies").
  3. (biology) Of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two.
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A fissiparous coalition that has lost the benefit of the doubt with many voters.
Passing to the invertebrate animals, we meet with two other modes of reproduction, the gemmiparous and fissiparous.
His coalition is broad and fissiparous, and the communists, who were the ruin of his last government, made a strong showing.
There are clear limits to what voluntary organizations can do to remedy the fissiparous tendencies of an inherently selfish capitalism.
Regeneration has been entrained to complete an asexual life cycle in fissiparous and comet-forming starfish.
During the Second World War, fissiparous nationalist sentiments reemerged but were again subsumed following final Russian victory.

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