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Sinistral

adjective
1.
Of or on the left.  "A sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye uppermost"
2.
Preferring to use left foot or hand or eye.



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"Sinistral" Quotes from Famous Books



... sinistrality[obs3]; left, left hand, a gauche; sinister, nearside[obs3], larboard, port. Adj. left-handed; sinister; sinistral, sinistrorsal[obs3], sinistrorse[obs3], sinistrous[obs3]; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... With gasteropods or shell-fish, the right and left sides are extremely unequal; the far greater number of species are dextral, with rare and occasional reversals of development, and some few are normally sinistral; but certain species of Bulimus, and, many Achatinellae,[123] are as often sinistral as dextral. I will give an analogous case in the great Articulate kingdom: the two sides of Verruca[124] are so wonderfully unlike, that without careful dissection it is extremely ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Sinistral" :   counterclockwise, anticlockwise, left-handed, contraclockwise, sinistrorse, sinister, sinistrorsal, dextral


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