adjective.
Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiralinclination of the stem of the morning glory.
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adjective.
spiraling upward from left to right
Word Usage
"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."