What's the difference between fissiparism and fissiparous?

Fissiparism


Definition:

  • (n.) Reproduction by spontaneous fission.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yes, that might mean five more years of pain, though I suspect in these fissiparous times it won’t last so long.
  • (2) Groping for British emblems to bind together an ever more diverse and fissiparous society, politicians struggle to find cultural and emotional social glue.
  • (3) But Clegg must be thinking very carefully about his options – the Liberals have a terribly fissiparous history.
  • (4) The mortality and fissiparity frequency of the subjects were studied.
  • (5) At doses where an antioxidant effect prevails, fissiparity is stimulated.
  • (6) The toxicity of selenium (Na2SeO3) and mercury (HgCl2) was determined by using a freshwater planarian which is particularly sensitive to pollution, and belongs to a fissiparous breed of Dugesia gonocephala.

Fissiparous


Definition:

  • (a.) Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yes, that might mean five more years of pain, though I suspect in these fissiparous times it won’t last so long.
  • (2) Groping for British emblems to bind together an ever more diverse and fissiparous society, politicians struggle to find cultural and emotional social glue.
  • (3) But Clegg must be thinking very carefully about his options – the Liberals have a terribly fissiparous history.
  • (4) The mortality and fissiparity frequency of the subjects were studied.
  • (5) At doses where an antioxidant effect prevails, fissiparity is stimulated.
  • (6) The toxicity of selenium (Na2SeO3) and mercury (HgCl2) was determined by using a freshwater planarian which is particularly sensitive to pollution, and belongs to a fissiparous breed of Dugesia gonocephala.

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