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‖ volvox Bot.|ˈvɒlvɒks|
[mod.L., f. L. volvĕre to roll.]
A genus of fresh-water 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).
1798Tilloch's Philos. Mag. I. 212 Girod Chantram..even distinguished in one species of conferva a real volvox, which had some similarity to the rotator of Gmelin. 1864H. J. Slack in Intell. Observer V. 183 In one of my specimens I found a small volvox apparently uninjured. 1884Edin. Rev. Oct. 373 It would now seem that the celestial spaces have also their volvoxes and diatoms. |