FAMILY VOLVOCACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Volvocaceae mean? 

• FAMILY VOLVOCACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY VOLVOCACEAE has 1 sense:

1. unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates

  Familiarity information: FAMILY VOLVOCACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY VOLVOCACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Volvocaceae; Volvocaceae

Hypernyms ("family Volvocaceae" is a kind of...):

protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "family Volvocaceae"):

genus Volvox; Volvox (type genus of the Volvocaceae; minute pale green flagellates occurring in tiny spherical colonies; minute flagella rotate the colony about an axis)

Holonyms ("family Volvocaceae" is a member of...):

order Volvocales; Volvocales (chiefly freshwater green algae; solitary or colonial)