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volvoˈcinean, a. Bot. Also -ian. [f. mod.L. Volvocineæ, f. Volvoc-, volvox.] Of or pertaining to the Volvocineæ, a family of microscopic confervaceous plants.
1885E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 836/1 Other Protozoa are known which are provided with chlorophyll corpuscles and..nourish themselves as do green plants. Such are the Volvocinean Flagellata and some of the Dinoflagellata. 1890Nature 6 Feb. 318/2, I have cited the two Volvocinean genera Pandorina and Volvox as examples of the differentiation of homoplastids into the lowest heteroplastids. |