ASBES'TUS, ASCA'RIS, noun plural ascar'ides. [Gr.] In zoology, a genus of intestinal worms. The body is cylindrical, and tapering at the ends. It includes two of the most common worms in the human intestines, the ascarides, and the lumbricoides.
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