MONERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Monera mean? 

• MONERA (noun)
  The noun MONERA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: MONERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONERA (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

kingdom Monera; kingdom Prokaryotae; Monera; Prokayotae

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)

 Context examples 

There are five biological kingdoms (Monera, Protista, Plantae, Fungi, Animalia) into which organisms are grouped, based on common characteristics.

(Kingdom, NCI Thesaurus)