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MONERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions
Synonyms:
kingdom Monera; kingdom Prokaryotae; Monera; Prokayotae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Monera" is a kind of...):
kingdom (the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia)
Meronyms (members of "Monera"):
moneran; moneron (organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis)
division Archaebacteria (in some classifications considered a kingdom)
division Eubacteria (one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella)
family Lactobacillaceae; family Lactobacteriaceae; Lactobacillaceae; Lactobacteriaceae (lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens; bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid)
phylum Pyrrophyta; Pyrrophyta (a division of lower plants comprising unicellular and biflagellate algae that form starchy compounds)
