Vocabulary : Fissile to Fissiparous
Fissile : Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.Fissilingual : Having the tongue forked.
Fissilinguia : A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards.
Fissility : Quality of being fissile.
Fission : A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts. ;; 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. ;; A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.
