'Monera' definitions:
Definition of 'Monera'
From: WordNet
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 [syn: Monera, kingdom Monera, Prokayotae, kingdom Prokaryotae]
Definition of 'Monera'
From: GCIDE
- Moneron \Mo*ne"ron\, n.; pl. L. Monera; E. Monerons. [NL.] (Zool.) One of the Monera. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Monera'
From: 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]