volvox
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of volvox
1790–1800; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin volv ( ere ) to turn, roll + -ōx (as in ferōx )
Example Sentences
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The volvox globator dwells in the lakes of Europe, is transparent, and bears within it children and grandchildren to the fifth generation; Syst.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Erasmus Darwin
But in volvox a change has taken place.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
A very instructive example is furnished by the case of volvox, a multicellular vegative organism of very curious habits.
From The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
I. Distinguishes animation from mechanism; solitary and sexual; buds and bulbs; aphises; tenia; volvox; polypus; oyster; eel; hermaphrodites.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Erasmus Darwin
The cells of volvox do not form a solid mass, but have arranged themselves in a single layer on the outer surface of the sphere.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
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