volvocineanadj.
Botany.
Of or pertaining to the Volvocineæ, a family of microscopic confervaceous plants.
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confervoid1830
confervaceous1853
glœocapsoid1857
nostochine1857
characeous1866
palmelloid1869
nostocaceous1872
phycochromaceous1873
volvocinaceous1874
rhodophycean1876
protococcal1879
oscillatoriaceous1881
protococcoid1882
volvocinean1885
naviculoid1894
charophytic1920
myxophycean1928
floridean1935
protococcoidal1965
1885 E. 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.
1890 Nature 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.
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adj.1885