We found 5 definitions of monera from 4 different sources.
Noun |
||
monera - 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 | ||
kingdom Monera, Prokayotae, kingdom Prokaryotae | ||
kingdom a basic group of natural objects | ||
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 |