Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Growing upward in a spiral that turns from right to left.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; -- the opposite of
dextrorse . Seedextrorse .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Turning to the
left (of the observer) in the ascending line.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective spiraling upward from right to left
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin sinistrōrsus, turned toward the left, contraction of *sinistrōversus : sinistrō, toward the left, from ablative of sinister, left + versus, past participle of vertere, to turn; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]
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See sinistrorsal.
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Examples
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Other plants twining spirally around an axis from right to left are called sinistrorse or sinistrorsal.
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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.
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