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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. On or to the right; right: dextrorotation.
  2. Dextrorotatory: dextrose.

Wiktionary

  1. chemistry Denoting a dextrorotatory form of enantiomer.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. (Chem. & Opt.) A prefix, from L. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward, the right. having the property of turning the plane of polarized light to the right.

Etymologies

  1. Latin, from dexter, on the right side. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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