Monera

[muh-neer-uh] /məˈnɪər ə/

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

< Neo-Latin (1869), plural of monēron, coinage based on Greek monḗrēs solitary, single, derivative of mónos alone, only

Monera in Culture

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.

Encyclopedia Article for Monera

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

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