sb. pl. Zool. [mod.L., a. Gr. ἀσκαρίδες, pl. of ἀσκαρίς. An anglicized sing. ascarid has occas. been used.] A genus of intestinal worms; thread-worms.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. xlix. (1495), 262. Wormes that ben nourisshed and fedde in the nether grete bowelles hyghte Ascarides.
1655. Culpepper, Riverius, X. ix. 307. Ascarides, or little Worms like smal thrids.
1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xxii. The ascarids and the lumbricks.
1785. Burke, Nabob of Arcot’s Debts, Wks. IV. 282. The whole brood of creeping ascarides … which … eat up the bowels of India.
1875. B. Richardson, Dis. Mod. Life, 31. Those small wire-like worms called ascarides in the lower part of the alimentary canal.
