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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Levorotatory.

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Examples

  • All I know is that he is going to have do a very impressive job to satisfy alot of current Iron Man - Thomas fans. levo

    Don Cheadle Replaces Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2 | /Film 2008

  • Chirality refers to the same sort of thing but with bond of 3D architecture, and the two possibilities are dextro and levo right and left.

    Language around trans, how it works, how it doesn’t… 2007

  • I was given levo 75mg and that only worked for a short time.

    'Roid Rage: Thyroid is a Key Player in Fertility GreenFertility 2006

  • Thus levo—from the Latin, meaning ‘left’—rotatory, or turning in the familiar helical configuration.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • Thus levo—from the Latin, meaning ‘left’—rotatory, or turning in the familiar helical configuration.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • The string which served as reins would have had no influence on the spirited beasts, but the words “na pravo,” to the right, “na levo,” to the left, pronounced in a guttural tone, were more effectual than either bridle or snaffle.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • Thus, while tissues were principally built of L-amino proteins in water solution like Flandry's or Cnif's, here they normally metabolized levo sugars.

    A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

  • The string which served as reins would have had no influence on the spirited beasts, but the words "na pravo," to the right, "na levo," to the left, pronounced in a guttural tone, were more effectual than either bridle or snaffle.

    Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar 1911

  • Others rotate it to the left, are levo-rotary, as the substance called levose.

    The Treasure-Train 1908

  • The sabadilla is dextro-rotary; the death camas is levo-rotary.

    The Treasure-Train 1908

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