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dextrorse Synonyms & Antonyms

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Dextrorse as an Adjective

1

Growing in a pattern that spirals clockwise around a central support; turning to the right when growing taller.

2

Having a negative torsion.

Word Forms & Grammar

dextrorse (not comparable)

Origin of Dextrorse

From Latin dextrorsum, contracted from dextrovorsum, dextroversum (“toward the right side”), from dexter (“right”) + versus, vorsus, past participle of vertere, vortere (“to turn”).