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To: kabar
WOW!!!

Fissiparous

I learned a new word today. Thanks!!

5 posted on 04/20/2012 6:55:28 AM PDT by ken5050 (The ONLY reason to support Mitt: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will appear at the WH each Christmas)
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To: ken5050
Pretty cool!

Fissiparous |fiˈsipərəs| adjective
inclined to cause or undergo division into separate parts or groups:
fissiparousness noun

7 posted on 04/20/2012 7:01:55 AM PDT by doc11355
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To: ken5050
I learned a new word today. Thanks!!

C.S. Lewis used the word in Pilgrim's Regress: "Evil is fissiparous, and could never in a thousand eternities find any way to arrest its own reproduction."

Cheers!

16 posted on 04/20/2012 8:30:32 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: ken5050
I learned a new word today. Thanks!!

C.S. Lewis used the word in Pilgrim's Regress: "Evil is fissiparous, and could never in a thousand eternities find any way to arrest its own reproduction."

Cheers!

17 posted on 04/20/2012 8:41:40 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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