▪ I. moner Biol.
(ˈməʊnə(r))
Also monere.
Anglicized form of moneron, sing. monera.
| 1868 Huxley in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. VIII. 210, I propose to confer upon this new ‘Moner’ the generic name of Bathybius. 1869 tr. Haeckel ibid. IX. 219 Detaching themselves..from the periphery of the Moner-colony. Ibid., This Moner-form would be intimately allied to Protogenes. 1873 Max Müller in Fraser's Mag. July 5 The physiologist..sees in the lowest Moneres the living proof of an independent beginning of life. 1882 Coues Biogen. (1884) 33 The chain of life is unbroken from moner to man. |
▪ II. moner
obs. form of manner.