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Monday, September 22, 2014

SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: FISSIPAROUS


SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY:  FISSIPAROUS


PRONUNCIATION:
(fi-SIP-uh-ruhs)

MEANING: (adjective):
1. Tending to break into parts.
2. Reproducing by biological fission.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin fissi- (cleft) + -parous (bearing, producing). Earliest documented use: 1835.

USAGE:  
"Some reckon it is even too late to achieve the more modest goals of bringing the fissiparous rebel groups under a single command structure."
Barack Obama's Tentative Step; The Economist (London, UK); Jun 22, 2013.
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