Sinistral

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or facing the left side.
  • adj. Left-handed.
  • adj. Zoology Relating to or being a gastropod shell that has its aperture to the left when facing the observer with the apex upward.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, facing, or on the left side.
  • adj. Left-handed.
  • adj. Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.
  • adj. left lateral fault movement.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral.
  • adj. Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the left side; situated on the left hand; not dextral; sinister; sinistrous.
  • In conchology, reversed from the usual, right, or dextral curve, as the whorls of a spiral shell; whorled toward the left; sinistrorse; heterostrophous.
  • In ichthyology, having both eyes on the left side of the head, as certain flatfishes.
  • Sinister; wrong.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. preferring to use left foot or hand or eye
  • adj. of or on the left
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    sinistrous    reversed    lef