volvox

American  

[vol-voks] / ˈvɒl vɒks /

noun

1. any colonial, freshwater green algae of the genus Volvox, forming a hollow, greenish sphere of flagellated cells.

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volvox British  

/ ˈvɒlvɒks /

noun

1. any freshwater flagellate protozoan of the genus Volvox, occurring in colonies in the form of hollow multicellular spheres

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Etymology

Origin of volvox

1790–1800; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin volv ( ere ) to turn, roll + -ōx (as in ferōx )

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volvox

One of the most remarkable of these, the volvox globator, has exactly the form of the germ which, after passing through a long fœtal progress, becomes a complete mammifer, an animal of the highest class. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers

The simplest form of all exemplifies spherical symmetry, and is that which we have seen in the truffle, the radiolarian, the volvox, Myxastrum and Magosphæra.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various

Furthermore, in volvox there has arisen such an interdependence of cells that we can no longer speak of it as a colony.

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

In volvox they are entirely subservient to, and exist for, the reproductive cells, and die when they have completed their service of these.

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

But in volvox division of labor and differentiation of structure have 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

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