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dextral
[ dek-struhl ]
dextral
/ dɛkˈstrælɪtɪ; ˈdɛkstrəl /
adjective
- of, relating to, or located on the right side, esp of the body; right-hand
- of or relating to a person who prefers to use his right foot, hand, or eye; right-handed
- (of the shells of certain gastropod molluscs) coiling in an anticlockwise direction from the apex; dextrorse
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Derived Forms
- ˈdextrally, adverb
- dextrality, noun
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Other Words From
- dextral·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
A genus of minute land shells, resembling Vertigo, but separated because they are dextral, while Vertigo is sinistral.
Dextral animals, with shell coiled pseudo-sinistrally; operculum with sinistral spiral; pallial cavity dorsal.
Shell thin, dextral, with prominent spire and oval aperture; no inferior pallial lobe.
Shell bulimoid, dextral or sinistral; radular teeth, expanded at their extremities and multicuspidate.
Vertigo (Sphyradium) edentula is dextral and without denticles.
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