fissile

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
fissile
    adj 1: capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable
           nucleous"; "fissionable material" [syn: {fissionable},
           {fissile}] [ant: {nonfissionable}]
    2: capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction
       of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" [ant:
       {nonfissile}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fissile \Fis"sile\, a. [L. fissilis, fr. fissus, p. p. of
   findere to split. See {Fissure}.]
   1. Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction
      of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of
      cleavage, like crystals.
      [1913 Webster]

            This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Fissionable.
      [PJC]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "fissile":
      alienable, breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, crackable, crisp,
      crispy, crumbly, crushable, delicate, dissoluble, dissolvable,
      divisible, fissionable, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail,
      frangible, friable, lacerable, scissile, separable, severable,
      shatterable, shattery, shivery, splintery, vulnerable
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