Webster's 1913 Dictionary
VOLVOX
VOLVOX Vol "vox, n. (Bot. )
Defn: 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
volvox
vol vox |ˈvälˌväks, ˈvôl -ˈvɑlvɑks | ▶noun Biology a green, single-celled aquatic organism that forms minute, free-swimming spherical colonies. [Genus Volvox, division Chlorophyta (or phylum Chlorophyta, kingdom Protista ).] ORIGIN modern Latin, from Latin volvere ‘to roll. ’
Oxford Dictionary
volvox
volvox |ˈvɒlvɒks | ▶noun Biology a green single-celled aquatic organism which forms minute free-swimming spherical colonies. ●Genus Volvox, division Chlorophyta (or phylum Chlorophyta, kingdom Protista ). ORIGIN modern Latin, from Latin volvere ‘to roll ’.
Duden Dictionary
Volvox
Vol vox Substantiv, feminin , die |V o lvox |die Volvox; Genitiv: der Volvox lateinisch-neulateinisch Kugelalge
Spanish Dictionary
volvox
volvox nombre masculino Alga de agua dulce que vive formando colonias en las que los individuos están unidos entre sí por comunicaciones protoplasmáticas que forman una intrincada red .El plural es volvox .
The Wordsmith Dictionary