dextrorse
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Growing in a pattern that spirals clockwise around a central support; turning to the right when growing taller.
adj
Example Sentences
- "They are arranged in distinct dextrorse spirals, and are about one length apart."
- "Here it is important to note whether theoverlapping is from right to left, Dextrorse (Fig. 125), or the reverse, Sinsitrorse (Fig. 124)."
- "At completion the suture line follows a dextrorse spiral in the capsule wall of nearly one revolution from base to tipe (Fig. 10)."
Etymology
From Latin dextrorsum, contracted from dextrovorsum, dextroversum (“toward the right side”), from dexter (“right”) + versus, vorsus, past participle of vertere, vortere (“to turn”).