Volvox
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See also: volvox
Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
New Latin, from Latin volvō (“roll”), coined by Linnaeus, 1758.
Proper noun[edit]
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[edit]
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Chlorophyta – infrakingdom; Chlorophyta – phylum; Chlorophyceae - class; Volvocales/Chlamydomonadales - order; Volvocaceae - family
Hyponyms[edit]
- (genus): Volvox africanus, Volvox aureus, Volvox carteri, Volvox dissipatrix, Volvox globator, Volvox lismorensis, Volvox perglobator, Volvox spermatosphaera, Volvox tertius, Volvox weismannia (species)
References[edit]
Volvox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Volvox on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Volvox on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Volvox at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
