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Mo⋅ne⋅ra

  [muh-neer-uh]
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–noun (used with a plural verb) Biology.
a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
Origin:
< NL (1869), pl. of monēron, coinage based on Gk monrēs solitary, single, deriv. of mónos alone, only
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Monera [(muh-neer-uh) (or Prokaryotae)]

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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Main Entry: mo·ne·ra
Pronunciation: m&-'nir-&
Function: noun plural
1 capitalized, in some classifications : akingdom or other major division of living things comprising the prokaryotes
2 : living things that are prokaryotes
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Monera

any of the prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea), constituting the kingdom Monera.

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