dextrorse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Growing in a pattern that spirals clockwise around a central support; turning to the right when growing taller.
  2. Having a negative torsion.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

dextrorse

Etymology

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

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