Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A moner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Monera.
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- noun Alternative form of
moneran .
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- noun organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
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Examples
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The lowest and most formless moneron is the bathybius, discovered by Thomas Huxley, a network of recticular mucus, which in the greatest depths of the sea, as far down as 7,000 metres, covers stone fragments and other objects, but are also found in less depths, in the Mediterranean Sea, for instance.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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From the moneron he proceeds to the amoeba -- a simple cell, with a kernel, which still corresponds to the egg of man in its first state.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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If all organized animal life was evolved from the moneron, a creature of one substance, homogeneous, how were creatures of more than one substance evolved without more being _evolved_ than was _involved_?
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 Various
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The pulpy mass of flesh, or moneron, from which so much has been "evolved" was the result of "the sun's rays falling upon the sea slime," and was and is a creature of one substance, homogeneous.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 Various
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Organic _form_ which, in its lowest stages, is so simple, like the moneron and the bathybius, and which stands still lower than a cell, is, moreover, something which there is no difficulty in explaining from inorganic matter.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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We are anxious to know, how from a pulpy mass of flesh, from a moneron, a creature of one substance,
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 Various
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Note this advance in the nutritive organism: the _moneron_ takes its food at any point of its body; the _amoeba_ takes its food by means of its "false-feet," and drives it through its body by a rhythmic movement of its substance; the
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897
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So you see that the amoeba has taken a step upward from the moneron, and is beginning to appreciate the convenience of parts and organs.
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897
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The different elements through which propagation and generation are carried on, are undoubtedly present even in the moneron, but are not differentiated.
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881
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The moneron, the lowest form of animal life, simply multiplies by division.
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881
hernesheir commented on the word moneron
CD&C: a moner.
December 29, 2011