Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By or toward the right side, as opposed to the left; dextrad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Towards the right.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Towards the
right .
Etymologies
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dextral + -ly
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Examples
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A new study by Hoso et al.1 demonstrates that snail-eating pareatine snakes have more teeth on their right jaws than on the left and attribute this difference to the prevalence of dextrally coiled right-handed shells in snails.
Evolution of jaw asymmetry in snail-eating snakes AYDIN 2007
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A new study by Hoso et al.1 demonstrates that snail-eating pareatine snakes have more teeth on their right jaws than on the left and attribute this difference to the prevalence of dextrally coiled right-handed shells in snails.
Archive 2007-02-01 AYDIN 2007
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The shells coil dextrally (right-handed, or in a clockwise direction) and have a long siphonal canal.
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