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Dextrorse

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Growing in a pattern that spirals clockwise around a central support; turning to the right when growing taller. not-comparable

    "They are arranged in distinct dextrorse spirals, and are about one length apart."

  2. 2
    Having a negative torsion. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    spiraling upward from left to right wordnet

Etymology

From Latin dextrorsum, contracted from dextrovorsum, dextroversum (“toward the right side”), from dexter (“right”) + versus, vorsus, past participle of vertere, vortere (“to turn”).

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