dextrorse
adjEtymology 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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Growing in a pattern that spirals clockwise around a central support; turning to the right when growing taller.
- They are arranged in distinct dextrorse spirals, and are about one length apart.1907, John Arthur Thomson, William Dawson Henderson, James Ritchie, Studies on Alcyonarians and Antipatharians, page 9:
- Here it is important to note whether theoverlapping is from right to left, Dextrorse (Fig. 125), or the reverse, Sinsitrorse (Fig. 124).1911, Henry Hurd Rusby, A Manual of Structural Botany, page 60:
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- At completion the suture line follows a dextrorse spiral in the capsule wall of nearly one revolution from base to tipe (Fig. 10).1997, American Journal of Botany - Volume 84, page 1338:
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Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Having a negative torsion.
- Antonyms
- sinistrorse
- Derived terms
- dextrorsely