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Webster 1913 Edition


Monerula

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Mo-ner′u-la

,
Noun.
[NL., dim. of
moner
. See
Monera
.]
(Biol.)
A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.
Haeckel.