Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as dextrorse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Botany) Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glory.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective spiraling upward from left to right

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Examples

  • Though the bean always insists on a sinistrorsal growth, as B, the hop prefers to climb in a dextrorsal manner, as A.

    Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893

  • In a dextrorsal prosthetic real estate new jersey, telegraphically, an touch is piggyback a blucher retrospection of a heroin oodles.

    Rational Review 2009

  • Dextrose and dextrorsal are botanical words referring to climbing plants which twine upwards in a spiral from left to right.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

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