fissiparous

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Definition

adjective reproducing by fission
adjective having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude

An adaptation of New Latin fissiparus, from fissus (“split, cleft”) + pariō (“to bring forth”) by analogy with vīviparus.

The fissiparous birth of individual from communal poetry is confirmed by the process observed everywhere among savage tribes. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere
I believe I know the sort, heavy and curved, but shorter than the cavalry; they used to have them in artillery and the--” As he spoke the blade plucked itself out of the crack it had made and came down again with a more ponderous slash, splitting the fissiparous fence to the bottom with a rending noise. — The wisdom of Father Brown, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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