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Monera — Monora redirects here. For the Romanian village of Mănărade, called Monora in Hungarian, see Blaj. Monera Fossil range: Hadean – Recent Scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli … Wikipedia
Kingdom (biology) — In biological taxonomy, a kingdom or regnum is a taxonomic rank in either (historically) the highest rank, or (in the new three domain system) the rank below domain. Each kingdom is divided into smaller groups called phyla (or in some contexts… … Wikipedia
kingdom Prokaryotae — noun 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 • Syn: ↑Monera, ↑kingdom Monera, ↑Prokayotae •… … Useful english dictionary
Monera — noun 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 • Syn: ↑kingdom Monera, ↑Prokayotae, ↑kingdom… … Useful english dictionary
Monera — Mo*ne ra, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. mo nos single.] (Zo[ o]l.) The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the am[oe]bas, but are destitute of a nucleus. [archaic] [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) One of the five kingdoms of living… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
kingdom — [kiŋ′dəm] n. [ME < OE cyningdom: see KING & DOM] 1. Obs. the position, rank, or power of a king 2. a government or country headed by a king or queen; monarchy 3. a realm; domain; sphere [the kingdom of poetry] 4. any of the three great divisi … English World dictionary
Monera — Kingdom that contains all prokaryotic organisms (bacteria and cyanobacteria) in the Five Kingdom scheme … Dictionary of molecular biology
kingdom — /king deuhm/, n. 1. a state or government having a king or queen as its head. 2. anything conceived as constituting a realm or sphere of independent action or control: the kingdom of thought. 3. a realm or province of nature, esp. one of the… … Universalium
Monera — The prokaryotes, a kingdom of primitive microbial organisms characterized by having no defined nucleus or chromosomes; DNA that is not membrane bound; and absence of centrioles, mitotic spindle, microtubules, and mitochondria; division of the ill … Medical dictionary
kingdom — One of the four categories into which natural objects are usually classified: the animal k., including all animals; the plant k., including all plants; the mineral k., including all objects and substances without life; and the protista, including … Medical dictionary
