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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology, a collective term applied to fissiparous animals, or organisms which propagate by fission or spontaneous self-division: it has no specific classificatory signification.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) Animals which reproduce by fission.

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