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.

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

Volvox was an all-female Turkish hard rock band active between 1988 and 1994, formed by Şebnem Ferah (guitar and vocals), Duygu Karpuz (guitar), Ebru Bank (Eroğlu) (bass), Buket Doran (bass, replaced Ebru Bank), Gül Ağırca (drums), and Özlem Tekin (keyboard and backvocals). The band took its name from the biological microorganism Volvox.