FISSIPARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fissiparity mean? 

• FISSIPARITY (noun)
  The noun FISSIPARITY has 2 senses:

1. reproduction of some multicellular organisms by division, as in the case of some starfish

2. the tendency to break into parts

  Familiarity information: FISSIPARITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FISSIPARITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reproduction of some multicellular organisms by division, as in the case of some starfish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("fissiparity" is a kind of...):

agamogenesis; asexual reproduction (reproduction without the fusion of gametes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The tendency to break into parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the fissiparity of religious sects

Hypernyms ("fissiparity" is a kind of...):

divisibility (the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons)