ˈmälgyələ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek molgos hide, skin + New Latin -ula; perhaps akin to Old High German malaha leather bag, Old Norse malr bag
: a cosmopolitan genus (the type of the family Molgulidae) of almost spherical ascidians with long siphons and a thin somewhat transparent tunic
• mol·gu·lid -lə̇d adjective or noun