Volvox

See also: volvox

Translingual

Volvox

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin volvō (“roll”), coined by Linnaeus, 1758.

Proper noun

Volvox m

1. 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

• (genus): Volvox africanus, Volvox aureus, Volvox carteri, Volvox dissipatrix, Volvox globator, Volvox lismorensis, Volvox perglobator, Volvox spermatosphaera, Volvox tertius, Volvox weismannia (species)

Descendants

• → English: volvox
• → French: volvox
• → German: Volvox
• → Russian: вольво́кс (volʹvóks)

References

• Volvox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Volvox on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Volvox on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Volvox at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.