Meanings of fissiparous in English

Yes, that might mean five more years of pain, though I suspect in these fissiparous times it won't last so long.

In such circumstances parties necessarily give place to groups, and the fissiparous tendency is most apparent where party discipline is most rigid.

The movements and fissiparous multiplication of the vibrios may thus be seen in all their beauty, and it is indeed a most interesting sight.

The protests against the decree appear -for now at least -to have united the fissiparous and largely secular opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Madam, -In September 2004 I wrote to The Irish Times about the use of the word "fissiparous" in an Editorial some days earlier.