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Minute pale green flagellates occurring in tiny spherical colonies
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volvox
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Volvox is a polyphyletic genus of chlorophyte green algae in the family Volvocaceae . It forms spherical colonies of up to 50,000 cells. They live in a variety of freshwater habitats, and were first reported by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1700. Volvox diverged ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Volvox \Vol"vox\, n. (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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
genus of fresh-water algae, 1798, from Latin volvere "to roll," from PIE root *wel- (3) "to turn, revolve," with derivatives referring to curved, enclosing objects (cognates: Sanskrit valate "turns round," ulvam "womb, vulva;" Lithuanian valtis "twine, ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context zoology English) Any of the genus ''Volvox'' of chlorophytes.
Usage examples of volvox.
The white corpuscles of the blood of a frog, and the cilia on two infusorial animals, a Paramaecium and Volvox, were similarly affected by the poison.
They look a little like colonial volvox algae, or soccer balls exquisitely fashioned out of blown glass and bits of diamond.
The revolving volvox likewise increases by growth until it becomes a society of animals, a multiple system of individuals.
This monad was once supposed to be a single animal, but the microscope shows it to be a group of animals connected by means of six processes, and each little growing volvox exhibits his red-eye speck and two long spines, or horns.
These could be just mobile algal colonies-like volvox and other pond life on Earth.