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dextrorse en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Latin dextrorsum, contracted from dextrovorsum, dextroversum (“toward the right side”), from dexter (“right”) + versus, vorsus, past participle of vertere, vortere (“to turn”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Growing in a pattern that spirals clockwise around a central support; turning to the right when growing taller.
    • At completion the suture line follows a dextrorse spiral in the capsule wall of nearly one revolution from base to tipe (Fig. 10). 1997, American Journal of Botany - Volume 84, page 1338:
    • Here it is important to note whether theoverlapping is from right to left, Dextrorse (Fig. 125), or the reverse, Sinsitrorse (Fig. 124). 1911, Henry Hurd Rusby, A Manual of Structural Botany, page 60:
    • They are arranged in distinct dextrorse spirals, and are about one length apart. 1907, John Arthur Thomson, William Dawson Henderson, James Ritchie, Studies on Alcyonarians and Antipatharians, page 9:
  2. (not-comparable) Having a negative torsion.

Antonyms

sinistrorse

Deriveds

dextrorsely

Translations (1)

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