noun
organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
• Syn: ↑moneron
• Hypernyms: ↑microorganism, ↑micro-organism
• Hyponyms:
↑archaebacteria, ↑archaebacterium, ↑archaeobacteria, ↑archeobacteria, ↑eubacteria, ↑eubacterium, ↑true bacteria
• Member Holonyms: ↑Monera, ↑kingdom Monera, ↑Prokayotae, ↑kingdom Prokaryotae
adjective
of or relating to the Monera
• Pertains to noun: ↑Monera
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/meuh near"euhn/, Biol.
n.
1. any organism of the kingdom Monera.
adj.
2. of or pertaining to the kingdom Monera.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.