Definition of Order Volvocales

1. Noun. Chiefly freshwater green algae; solitary or colonial.

Exact synonyms: Volvocales
Generic synonyms: Protoctist Order
Group relationships: Chlorophyceae, Class Chlorophyceae
Member holonyms: Family Volvocaceae, Volvocaceae, Chlamydomonadaceae, Family Chlamydomonadaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Volvocales

order Tinamiformes
order Torpediniformes
order Tremellales
order Trichoptera
order Trogoniformes
order Tuberales
order Tubulidentata
order Tulostomatales
order Ulvales
order Umbellales
order Uredinales
order Urodella
order Uropygi
order Urticales
order Ustilaginales
order Volvocales (current term)
order Xiphosura
order Xyridales
order Zeomorphi
order Zygnemales
order Zygnematales
order arms
order book
order code
order form
order in council
order mantophasmatodea
order oedogoniales
order of Saint Benedict
order of business

Literary usage of Order Volvocales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The order Volvocales is clearly closely related to the foregoing order, but is distinguished by the fact that the cells retain their flagella and remain ..."

2. Phytoplankton of the Inland Lakes of Wisconsin by Gilbert Morgan Smith (1920)
"... Order VOLVOCALES. Cells normally ciliate and motile during the vegetative phases of the life cycle. Solitary or organized into colonies of definite form ..."

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