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volvox
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Animalcule \An`i*mal"cule\, n. [As if fr. a L. animalculum, dim. of animal.] A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc. [Obs.] --Ray. (Zo["o]l.) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria . Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have ...
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
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) Any of the genus ''Volvox'' of chlorophytes.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
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.