ˈyügləfə, yüˈglifə noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from eu- + Greek glyphē carving, from glyphein to carve or hollow out — more at cleave
: a genus (the type of a cosmopolitan family Euglyphidae) of freshwater amoeboid protozoans with a plated test, one or two nuclei, and dichotomously branched filopodia
• eu·gly·phid -fə̇d adjective or noun