Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A group of organisms of extreme simplicity, allied to the bacteria, and regarded by Haeckel as the oldest and most primitive of living beings.

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  • Those remarkable beings called the monera -- especially the chromacea and bacteria -- are specimens of these simple cytodes.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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