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Definition of Monera
1. Noun. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions.
Member holonyms: Moneran, Moneron, Division Archaebacteria, Division Eubacteria, Family Lactobacillaceae, Family Lactobacteriaceae, Lactobacillaceae, Lactobacteriaceae, Phylum Pyrrophyta, Pyrrophyta
Generic synonyms: Kingdom
Definition of Monera
1. n. pl. The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amœbas, but are destitute of a nucleus.
Definition of Monera
1. moner [n] - See also: moner
Medical Definition of Monera
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Monera
Literary usage of Monera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"Order I. monera. The most important character of the monera is the lack of a
nucleus. As with other negative characters this is somewhat uncertain. ..."
2. The Standard Natural History by John Sterling Kingsley, Frederich Anton Heller von Hellwald, Elliott Coues (1884)
"Four well-marked groups of Protozoa occur ; monera, ... THE monera, the lowest
group of the Protozoa, may be briefly described, following partly the ..."
3. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"Crystals and monera.—Formless Organisms without Organs. ... Origin of monera by
Spontaneous Generation.—Origin of Cells from monera.—The Cell Theory. ..."
4. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1903)
"First Ancestral Stage : monera.— The Structureless and Homogeneous Plasson of the
... Vital Phenomena of monera.—Organisms without Organs. ..."
5. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"Distribution of these Twenty. two Parent-forms in the Five Main Divisions of the
Organic History of the Earth. — First Ancestral Stage : monera. ..."
6. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1879)
"The Structureless and Homogeneous Plasson of the monera.—Differen. tiation of
the Plasson into ... Vital Phenomena of monera.—Organisms without Organs. ..."
7. The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1904)
"On the ground of this important chemical difference, I distinguished two principal
groups of the monera in my Systematic Phylogeny twenty years ago — the ..."
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