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noun
Any organism of the former kingdom of Monera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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adjective
of or relating to the Monera
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: moneron
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Broader terms: microorganism, micro-organism
Narrower terms: archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria, eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria
History
From Monera + -an.
