volvox


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
volvox /ˈvɒlvɒks/
noun Biology a green single-celled aquatic organism which forms minute free-swimming spherical colonies. [Genus Volvox.]
– origin mod. L., from L. volvere ‘to roll’.
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