Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Growing upward in a spiral that turns from right to left: a sinistrorse vine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Turned or turning to the left; directed sinistrad; sinistrorsal: same as sinistral, but implying motion or direction rather than rest or position.
- In botany, rising from left to right, as a climbing plant. For the antagonistic senses in which dextrorse and consequently its opposite sinistrorse are used, see dextrorse.
Wiktionary
- adj. Turning to the left (of the observer) in the ascending line.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; -- the opposite of
dextrorse . See dextrorse.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. spiraling upward from right to left
Etymologies
- See sinistrorsal. (Wiktionary)
- Latin sinistrōrsus, turned toward the left, contraction of *sinistrōversus : sinistrō, toward the left, from ablative of sinister, left + vorsus, past participle of vortere, variant of vertere, to turn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Other plants twining spirally around an axis from right to left are called sinistrorse or sinistrorsal.”
“It's not that Turnbull is stupid-he can quote Kierkegaard and Pascal on angst and allude to the deaths of Schubert and Mozart and distinguish between a sinistrorse and a dextrorse Polygonum vine, etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sinistrorse’.
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Move it!
Awesome actions or motions.
celerity, peremptory, volplane, founder, whirl, gallopade, rathe, jounce, jive, jink, jibe, jectigation and 17 more...
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[Open] Sinister Ascriptions
These words either descend from a word or root referring to the left side or direction (e.g., “sinister”) or refer to the concept themselves. Many, but not all, have negative connotations.
sinister, sinistral, gauche, bend sinister, bar sinister, sinister-handed, sinisterly, oculus sinister, ambisinister, sinister base, sinister aspect, ramus sinister and 43 more...
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fredrx's beautiful sounding list
two most beautiful words when put together
womb, philistine, poignant, wombastic, eschelon, macabre, precipitous, panache, misogynist, placebo, cacophony, aplomb and 43 more...
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
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Swishy Burbles
Words with a certain flowing, silly sound to them; I may as well have found them in a James Joyce novel.
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