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Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals. "This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone." (Sir I. Newton)
Origin: L. Fissilis, fr. Fissus, p.p. Of findere to split. See Fissure.
(01 Mar 1998)
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