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Monera n. pl. (Zool.)

The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus. (archaic)

(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.

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... vegetable all but vanishes, and the two seem to run together. The chasm between the lowest vegetable forms and unorganized matter is evidently a slight affair. The state of unorganized protoplasm which Haeckel named the Monera, that precedes the development of that architect of life, the cell, can hardly be more than one remove from inert matter. By insensible molecular changes and transformations of energy, the miracle of living matter takes place. We can conceive of life ...

— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Monera" : Prokayotae, moneron, Lactobacteriaceae, Lactobacillaceae, Pyrrophyta, division Eubacteria, division Archaebacteria, phylum Pyrrophyta, kingdom Monera, family Lactobacteriaceae, moneran, kingdom Prokaryotae