Moneron

Mo`ne´ron

n.

1.

(Zool.) One of the Monera.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

moneron - organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis moneran micro-organism, microorganism - any organism of microscopic size kingdom Monera, kingdom Prokaryotae, Monera, Prokayotae - 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 archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria - considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria - a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella