moneral

[Mod. Lat. moner(a); Eng. adj. suff.-al.] Belonging to or having the characteristics of Monera. [MONERON.] "To give a kind of general stability to the little moneral organisms." -Prof . T. R. Jones, in Ca ell's Nat . Hist ., vi. 347. mon-er-on ( pl. mon-er-a), s. [MONAS.] Biology & Zoology: 1. Any individual of Haeckel's Protistic cla Monera. [2.] "This wonderful moneron lives in the deepest parts of the sea."- Haeckel : Evolution of Man , ii. 49. 2. ( Pl .): The first cla ot Haeckel's sub-kingdom Protist a (q.v.). It is divided into three orders, Lobo monera, Rhizomonera, and Tachymonera, and he describes the individuals as "organisms without organs" ( Organ is men ohne Organe ). The entire body, in its fully-developed condition, consists merely of a small piece of structurele plasma or primitive slime ( Urschleim ), not differentiated into protoplasm and nucleus. Movement is effected by means of lobed, filiform, or flagellate pseudopods. Reproduction asexual. Marine and also parasitic. ( E. Haeckel : Das Protistenreich , p. 86.) mon-ěr-u-lą, s. [Mod. Lat. dim in. of moneron (q. v.).] Biol.: A simple protoplasmic body in which no true nucleus is to be found. "We shall call this simplest (non-nucleated) stage the Monerula."- Haeckel: Evolution of Man, i. 179. mo-në-sēş, subst. [From Gr. monos alone. So named from the solitary flowers and combined pet als. ( Hooker & Arnott.)] Bot .: Formerly regarded as a genus of Ericacese. Sir Joseph Hooker reduces it to a sub-genus of Pyrola, thus defined: "Flower solitary, petals slightly adherent at the base, spreading anther cells with tubular tips, stigmatic lobes long, valves of capsule free." Moneses grandiflora is now called Pyrola uniflora . mô-nê-şi-a, subst. [A Spanish American word.] (See the compound.) monesia-bark, s.