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