)'o' + 'er' + mon'( מטבע

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Noun
1. organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
(synonym) moneran
(hypernym) microorganism
(hyponym) archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria
(member-holonym) Monera, kingdom Monera

(n.)
One of the Monera.
  

Monera, Moneron [from Greek moneres single] Coined by Haeckel for a group of unicellular organisms, without nucleus and multiplying by fission. Supposed to be neither animal nor vegetable but the root of both, the point at which "organic" life first appears from the minerals. Some of Haeckel's elementary organisms have since proved to be merely chemical.
Often used in the SD to denote a primordial particle of organic life, just as atom and molecule may be used for inorganic matter. Organic or inorganic do not signify living or nonliving, but merely entities or particles without organs even of the most primitive type. All matter, whether organized or in its so-called inorganic forms, is filled with life or vitality, each entity possessing life of its own type and therefore being as fully vitalized in its own sphere as are the most highly organized entities.