Trying to secede from the mainland, the fissiparous polities have been causing serious problems to the central authority.
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Fissiparous
//fɪˈsɪpəɹəs//
Synonyms for "fissiparous" (10 found)
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15 translations across 8 languages.
Dutch
4 entries- kunstmatig adj (factious, tending to break into pieces)
- onsamenhangend adj (factious, tending to break into pieces)
- splijtend adj (causing division or fragmenting something)
- zich door celdeling voortplantend adj (of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two)
French
2 entries- fissurant adj (causing division or fragmenting something)
- incohérent adj (factious, tending to break into pieces)
German
1 entries- fissipar adj (of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two)
Greek
1 entries- διασπαστικός adj (causing division or fragmenting something)
Italian
2 entries- fissiparo adj (factious, tending to break into pieces)
- scissiparo adj (factious, tending to break into pieces)
Māori
1 entries- akoako adj (factious, tending to break into pieces)
Polish
1 entries- kruchy adj (factious, tending to break into pieces)
Portuguese
3 entries- fissíparo adj (factious, tending to break into pieces)
- fissíparo adj (causing division or fragmenting something)
- fissíparo adj (of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two)
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That nation, inescapably, is Germany, the largest, richest, most important, perhaps most admirable and certainly most pivotal nation in the European Union, the nation around which a flourishing Europe will always centre and the nation upon which a fissiparous Europe always risks foundering.
Source: wiktionary
There is no panacea. Iraq is a destroyed and fissiparous country.
Source: wiktionary
Like empires, world orders grow old, fissiparous, complacent and grumpy — despite the Champagne, the thrill is gone.
Source: wiktionary
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