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Definition of Dextrally
1. adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
Definition of Dextrally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dextrally
Literary usage of Dextrally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"The spiral of a dextrally twisted shell can by degrees become flattened in such
a way that the shell may be simply coiled in one plane or may nearly ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"This unequal growth determines the formation of the so-called dextrally twisted
shell. An original inclination to the right must be assumed for the shell ..."
3. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"... dextrally, or both, by the elaboration of the marginal zone, and by their
flattened sessile habit, being usually attached to brachiopod shells. ..."
4. A Manual of the Mollusca: Being a Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1880)
"Shell minute, glassy, compressed and prominently keeled; nucleus dextrally spiral;
aperture narrow, deeply notched at the keel; operculum. ovate, pointed, ..."
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