Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various one-celled flagellate freshwater green algae of the genus Volvox that form hollow mucilaginous spherical colonies of several hundred cells.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small genus of fresh-water algæ, of the order Volrocineæ and class Cœnobieæ.
- noun [lowercase] A member of the above genus: as, the globate volvox.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is
Volvox globator , often calledglobe animalcule .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of the
genus Volvox ofchlorophytes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Volvocaceae; minute pale green flagellates occurring in tiny spherical colonies; minute flagella rotate the colony about an axis
Etymologies
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Examples
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And again, I don't want to talk about consciousness, I want to talk about it just as if it was a little bacteria, or a volvox, which is what that organism is.
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And again, I don't want to talk about consciousness, I want to talk about it just as if it was a little bacteria, or a volvox, which is what that organism is.
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And again, I don't want to talk about consciousness, I want to talk about it just as if it was a little bacteria, or a volvox, which is what that organism is.
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Man is the most composite of all creatures; the wheel-insect, volvox globator, is at the other extreme.
Representative Men 2006
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Another example of conjugation is that of Pandorina, an alga allied to the well-known volvox.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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In explaining the facts of reproduction, I would therefore suggest that you should begin with the lowest rung of the ladder, the simplest organisms, such as the amoeba or the volvox.
The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins
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Just as dangerous, just as self-centred, as in its small way is that vegetative organism the volvox, which, when food is scarce and the race is threatened, against possible need of insemination, creates separate husband cells to starve in clusters, while ` she 'hogs all the food-supply for the production of eggs.
She Stands Accused 1935
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There is a class of wheel-animalcules termed _rotifera_, of which the revolving volvox is one example.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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The revolving volvox likewise increases by growth until it becomes a society of animals, a multiple system of individuals.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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This monad was once supposed to be a single animal, but the microscope shows it to be a group of animals connected by means of six processes, and each little growing volvox exhibits his red-eye speck and two long spines, or horns.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
reesetee commented on the word volvox
Uselessness, I think this one ought to go on your list of No-nos. :-)
March 13, 2007
uselessness commented on the word volvox
Ugh. True dat!!
March 13, 2007