Volvox
See also: volvox
Translingual
Etymology
New Latin, from Latin volvō (“roll”), coined by Linnaeus, 1758.
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): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Chlorophyta – infrakingdom; Chlorophyta – phylum; Chlorophyceae - class; Volvocales/Chlamydomonadales - order; Volvocaceae - family
Hyponyms
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References
Volvox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Volvox on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
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