Scissile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Cut or split easily: a scissile mineral; a scissile peptide bond.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Readily cut or split
  • adj. easily broken
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of being cut or divided, as by a sharp instrument; scissible.
  • n. Same as scissel.
  • Word Usage
    "The gills are also scissile, that is, they can be split, and are linear and swollen in the middle."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    scissible    cleavable