pref. 1. Split; cleft: schizocarp. 2. Cleavage; fission: schizogenesis. 3. Schizophrenia: schizoid. [New Latin, from Greek skhizo-, from skhizein, to split; see skei- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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