Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a moner, or to the Monera. Also moneric, moneral.
  • noun A moner or moneron.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Monera.

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  • noun zoology Any organism of the former kingdom of Monera.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the Monera
  • noun organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Monēra, kingdom name, from Greek monērēs, solitary, from monos, single, alone; see monad.]

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Monera +‎ -an

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