||Vol"vox (?), n. (Bot.) A genus
of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch
in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by
minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the
flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and
each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest
species is Volvox globator, often called globe
animalcule.
||Vol"vox (?), n. (Bot.) A genus
of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch
in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by
minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the
flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and
each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest
species is Volvox globator, often called globe
animalcule.