Dextral

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or located on the right side; right.
  • adjective. Right-handed.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a gastropod shell that coils clockwise and has its aperture to the right when facing the observer with the apex upward.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Right, as opposed to left; right-hand.
  • In conchology, dextrorse: applied to univalve shells whose aperture is on the right side when the shell is held in front of the observer with the apex upward and the aperture downward toward him: opposed to sinistral. Most shells are dextral.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left.
  • adjective. a spiral shell the whorls of which turn from left right, or like the hands of a watch when the apex of the spire is toward the eye of the observer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the right side
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or on the right
  • adjective. preferring to use right foot or hand or eye
  • Word Usage
    "Check that picture: Ms Saites has an extraordinarily well-developed dextral sternocleido mastoideus."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    sinistral  
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