different between oviparous vs fissiparous

English

Etymology

From Latin oviparus, ovo- “egg” + pari? (“give birth, produce, bring forth”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???v?p???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /o??v?p???s/

Adjective

oviparous (not comparable)

1. Egg-laying; depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.

   The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.

   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend [1]

     And though it might be thought that all animals who have lungs do cough; yet in cataceous fishes, who have large and strong lungs, the same is not observed; nor yet in oviparous quadrupeds: and in the greatest thereof, the crocodile, although we read much of their tears, we find nothing of that motion.

Related terms

• ovoviviparous

Translations

See also

• viviparous

Anagrams

• apivorous

English

Etymology

An adaptation of the New Latin fissiparus, from fissus (“split”, “cleft”) + pari? (“I bring forth”) by mistaken analogy with v?viparus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??s?p???s/

Adjective

fissiparous (comparative more fissiparous, superlative most fissiparous)

1. Factious, tending to break into pieces
2. Causing division or fragmenting something (often appearing in the collocation "fissiparous tendencies").
3. (biology) Of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two.

Translations

Synonyms

• (factious): factious, unstable
• (causing fragmentation): divisive, fragmenting

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:fissiparous.

Related terms

• fissile
• fissiparism
• oviparous
• multiparous
• nulliparous
• viviparous
• ovoviviparous