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Arctiid
- noun - stout-bodied broad-winged moth with conspicuously striped or spotted wings; larvae are hairy caterpillars
Arcuate
- adjective - forming or resembling an arch; "an arched ceiling"
Ascarid
- - A parasitic nematoid worm, especially the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.
Ascaris
- noun - type genus of the family Ascaridae: roundworms with a three-lipped mouth
Ascends
- verb - appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house"
- become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
- come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
- go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
- go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
- move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
- slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
- to climb
- travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
Ascents
- noun - a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
Asceses
- noun - rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
Ascesis
- noun - rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint