What is "monas"

Monas \Mo"nas\, n. [NL. See Monad.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad.

n. a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive [syn: monad]

Monas was Bishop of Milan from the end 3rd-century to early 4th-century. He is honoured as a Saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is on October 12.

Monas is a genus of flagellates, described by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1773 as a group of Infusoria. Throughout time, it represented an aggregate genus.