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    KINGDOM MONERA

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     I. (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 divisionsplay

    Synonyms:

    kingdom Monera; kingdom Prokaryotae; Monera; Prokayotae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("kingdom 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 "kingdom 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)

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