Dictionary entry

Monerula

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖Mo‐ner″u‐la (?), n. [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.