monerula

English

Etymology

From New Latin monerula, diminutive of moner. So called from its likeness to a moner.

Noun

monerula

1. (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

• “monerula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.