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Webster 1913 Edition


Volvox


Vol′vox

,
Noun.
(Bot.)
A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is
Volvox globator
, often called
globe animalcule
.

Definition 2024


Volvox

Volvox

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Translingual

Volvox

Proper noun

Volvox m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Volvocaceae – certain freshwater chlorophytes that form spherical colonies of up to 50,000 cells; found in ponds and ditches. [from 1758]

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volvox

volvox

See also: Volvox

English

Noun

volvox (plural volvoxes)

  1. (zoology) Any of the genus Volvox of chlorophytes.