Volvox

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Translingual

Volvox

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Volvox m

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.

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.

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