Volvox
See also: volvox
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. [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)
References
Volvox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Volvox on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Volvox on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Volvox at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.