MONERAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moneran mean? 

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

1. organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis

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

• MONERAN (adjective)
  The adjective MONERAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the Monera

  Familiarity information: MONERAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONERAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

moneran; moneron

Hypernyms ("moneran" is a kind of...):

micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moneran"):

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)

Holonyms ("moneran" is a member of...):

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)

• MONERAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Monera

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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)