Monera

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Monera \Mo*ne"ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. mo`nos single.] (Zool.)
     The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which
     resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.
     [archaic]
     [1913 Webster]
  


     2. (Biol.) One of the five kingdoms of living organisms in
        the five-kingdom classification, consisting of microscopic
        usually monocellular prokaryotic organisms that mostly
        reproduce by asexual fission, sporulation, or budding; it
        includes the bacteria and cyanophytes (blue-green algae),
        as well as certain primitive pathogenic microbes, such as
        the Rickettsias.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moneron \Mo*ne"ron\, n.; pl. L. {Monera}; E. {Monerons}. [NL.]
     (Zool.)
     One of the Monera.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Monera
       n : 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 [syn: {kingdom Monera}]