a. [f. FISSURE sb. + -LESS.] Without a fissure or fissures.
1875. Bennett & Dyer, trans. Sachs Bot., III. iii. 650. Uloth (Flora 1871, no. 12) observed the remarkable fact that seeds of Acer platanoides and of wheat which had fallen between pieces of ice in an ice-house germinated there and pushed a number of roots several inches deep into the fissureless pieces of ice.