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Diffission :: Diffission (n.) Act of cleaving or splitting.

Fissigemmation :: Fissigemmation (n.) A process of reproduction intermediate between fission and gemmation.

Fissile :: Fissile (a.) Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals..

Fissilingual :: Fissilingual (a.) Having the tongue forked.

Fissilinguia :: Fissilinguia (n. pl.) A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards..

Fissility :: Fissility (n.) Quality of being fissile.

Fission :: Fission (n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts..

Fission :: Fission (n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division..

Fission :: Fission (n.) A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation..

Fissipalmate :: Fissipalmate (a.) Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves..

Fissipara :: Fissipara (n. pl.) Animals which reproduce by fission.

Fissiparism :: Fissiparism (n.) Reproduction by spontaneous fission.

Fissiparity :: Fissiparity (n.) Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.

Fissiparous :: Fissiparous (a.) Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.

Fissipation :: Fissipation (n.) Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.

Fissiped :: Fissiped (a.) Alt. of Fissipeda.

Fissiped :: Fissiped (n.) One of the Fissipedia.

Fissipedal :: Fissipedal (a.) Having the toes separated to the base. [See Aves..

Fissipedia :: Fissipedia (n. pl.) A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia..

Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..

Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.