Associations to the word «Volvox»

Wiktionary

VOLVOX, proper noun. 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]
VOLVOX, noun. (zoology) Any of the genus Volvox of chlorophytes.

Dictionary definition

VOLVOX, noun. Type genus of the Volvocaceae; minute pale green flagellates occurring in tiny spherical colonies; minute flagella rotate the colony about an axis.

Wise words

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