monerula
English edit
Etymology edit
From New Latin monerula, diminutive of moner. So called from its likeness to a moner.
Noun edit
monerula
- (biology) A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm.
- 1883, Ernst Haeckel, The History of Creation:
- The Monerula, as we may call this egg-cytod without a kernel, repeats then, according to the biogenetic principle
References edit
- “monerula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.