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Webster 1913 Edition
Volvox
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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
See also: volvox
Translingual
Proper noun
Volvox m
- 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]
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; Chlorophyta - phylum; Chlorophyceae - class; Volvocales - order; Volvocaceae - family