ppl. a. [f. FISSURE sb. or v. + -ED.] Having a fissure or fissures; broken up by fissures.

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1788.  T. Taylor, Comment. of Proclus, I. p. cxii. They likewise abstained from the fish which Egypt produced; and from all quadrupeds having solid or many fissured hoofs; from such as were without horns; and from all carniverous birds.

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1816.  Shelley, Alastor, 579.

                    Ivy clasped
The fissured stones with its entwining arms,
And did embower with leaves for ever green,
And berries dark, the smooth and even space
Of its inviolated floor.

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1845.  Darwin, Voy. Nat., xvi. (1873), 352. I can hardly conceive it possible, that the small quantity of aëriform fluids which then escape from the fissured ground, can produce such remarkable effects.

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1872.  Oliver, Elem. Bot., I. iii. 21. The anthers, we have observed, are divided lengthwise into two lobes, which lobes, after the expansion of the flower, become fissured near their margins, so as to liberate the grains of pollen which they contain.

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