Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Monerula

Monerula , noun

[New Latin, dim. of moner. See Monera.]

(Biology) 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