what does fissiparity mean?
FISSIPARITY as NOUN
- Meaning
- the tendence to break into parts
Usage Example(s)
- the fissipairty of religious sects
Hypernyms(s) fissiparity is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- reproduction of some multicellular organisms by division, as in the case of some starfish
Hypernyms(s) fissiparity is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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