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| 1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
Monera
n 1: 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: Monera, kingdom Monera,
Prokayotae, kingdom Prokaryotae]
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| 2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
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]
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| 3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Moneron \Mo*ne"ron\, n.; pl. L. Monera; E. Monerons. [NL.] (Zool.) One of the Monera. [1913 Webster] | ||
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