volvoxn.
/ˈvɒlvɒks/, U.S. /ˈvɑlˌvɑks/ Botany.
A genus of freshwater organisms having a spherical form and provided with cilia which enable them to roll over in the water; an individual of this genus. Volvox as the name of a vine-fretter in Holland Pliny (1601) I. 547 is derived from old editions of the Nat. Hist. xvii. xxviii, which have volvocem in place of volucre(m).
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1798 Philos. Mag. 1 212 Girod Chantram..even distinguished in one species of conferva a real volvox, which had some similarity to the rotator of Gmelin.
1864 H. J. Slack in Intellectual Observer V. 183 In one of my specimens I found a small volvox apparently uninjured.
1884 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 373 It would now seem that the celestial spaces have also their volvoxes and diatoms.
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