ASCARID

[as.ca.rid] n [ultim. fr. LL ascarid-, ascaris intestinal worm, fr. Gk askarid-, askaris, prob. by back-formation fr. askarizein to jump, throb, alter. of skarizein, fr. skairein to gambol] (ca. 1890): any of a family (Ascaridae) of nematode worms that includes the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) parasitic in the human intestine