Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sinistrorse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sinistrorse \Sin"is*trorse`\, a. [See {Sinistrolsal}.]
Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line;
-- the opposite of dextrorse. See {Dextrorse}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sinistrorse
adj : (botany) spiraling upward from right to left; "sinistrorse
vines" [syn: {sinistrorsal}]
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