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Dextrorotatory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to an optically active chemical that rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise: a dextrorotatory solution.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. That rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; Cf. levorotatory.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Same as dextrogyrate.

In botany, turning or twining to the right. See right-handed, 3.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. rotating to the right

Word Usage

"Oil from the wild roots of North India is said to be highly levorotatory (rotates the plane of polarized light to the left), whereas that from the cultivated roots from South India is dextrorotatory (rotates polarized light to the right)."

Equivalent

clockwise

Antonym

levorotatory

Variant

levorotatory

Synonym

Words with the same meaning