different between viviparous vs fissiparous

English

Alternative forms

• vivipartous (rare)

Etymology

From Latin v?viparus, from v?vus (“alive, life, living”) + pari? (“give birth, produce, bring forth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??v?p???s/

Adjective

viviparous (not comparable)

1. (of an animal or animal species) Being born alive, as are most mammals, some reptiles, and a few fish (as opposed to being laid as an egg and subsequently hatching, as do most birds and many other species).
2. (of a plant or plant species) Arising from an embryo that develops from the outset (rather than from a true seed that then germinates).

Antonyms

• (of an animal): oviparous

Derived terms

Translations

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