sinistrorsal

English

Etymology

From Latin sinistrorsus, sinistroversus (“turned toward the left side”), from sinister (“left”) + vertere, vortere, versum, vorsum (“to turn”).

Adjective

sinistrorsal (not comparable)

Rising spirally from right to left (of the observer); sinistrorse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sinistrorsal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)