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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FIS'SILE, a. [L. fissilis, from fissus, divided, from findo, to split.]
That may be split, cleft or divided in the direction of the grain, or of natural joints.
This crystal is a pellucid fissile stone.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin fissilis, from findere Date: 1661 1. capable of being split or divided in the direction of the grain or along natural planes of cleavage <fissile wood> <fissile crystals> 2. capable of undergoing fission • fissility noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 capable of undergoing nuclear fission. 2 cleavable; tending to split. Derivatives: fissility n. Etymology: L fissilis (as FISSURE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fissile Fis"sile, a. [L. fissilis, fr. fissus, p. p. of findere to split. See Fissure.] 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.

Moby Thesaurus

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