Monera

American  

[muh-neer-uh] / məˈnɪər ə /

noun

Biology.

1. (in the five-kingdom system of taxonomic classification) the kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that include the bacteria and typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission, and that are nourished through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.

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Monera Cultural  

1. The kingdom of single-celled organisms without a cell nucleus (see also prokaryotes). Monera are the most primitive living things and are thought to have been the first to evolve.

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Etymology

Origin of Monera

First recorded in 1865–70; from New Latin, plural of monēron, coinage based on Greek monḗrēs “solitary, single,” derivative of mónos “alone, only”

Example Sentences

Because bacteria lack nuclei, mitochondria, and chloroplasts, all prokaryotes were placed in kingdom Monera, while single-celled eukaryotic organisms remained in kingdom Protista.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

Even as far down the scale of life as the Monera, we may see the Creative Will in action.

From A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga by Atkinson, William Walker

Some of the Monera acquired tendencies towards the Protistic, others towards the Vegetal, and others towards the Animal modes of life.

From Critiques and Addresses by Huxley, Thomas Henry

For this reason the natural history of the Monera is of great interest; here alone can we find the means to overcome the chief difficulties of the problem of spontaneous generation.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Protamœba, prō-ta-mē′ba, n. a low form of the Monera, which is constantly changing its form by sending out and withdrawing pseudopodia.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various