fissiparous
pronunciation
How to pronounce fissiparous in British English:
UK [fɪ'sɪpərəs]
How to pronounce fissiparous in American English:
US [fɪ'sɪpərəs]
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- Adjective:
- reproducing by fission
- having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude
Word Origin
Example
- 1. Yet it will be hard for egypt 's fissiparous people to express their opinion through the maelstrom of tahrir .
- 2. Russia 's far east has always been the most strategically vulnerable part of moscow 's fissiparous imperium , in what is the world 's biggest country .
- 3. It is impossible to fix the north caucasus , or indeed any of the country 's fissiparous regions , without dealing with moscow 's own larger defects .
- 4. He is struggling to hold together a fissiparous coalition , led by his pakistan peoples party ( ppp ) , at least until an upper-house election , due in march .
- 5. But government plans to let same-sex couples not only marry but marry in church , detailed on december 11th , have startled the ecclesiastical horses and divided the already fissiparous conservatives .