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Definition of Sinistrorse
1. Adjective. Spiraling upward from right to left. "Sinistrorse vines"
Definition of Sinistrorse
1. a. Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; -- the opposite of dextrorse. See Dextrorse.
Medical Definition of Sinistrorse
1. Turned or twisted to the left. Origin: L. Sinistrorsus, on the left side, fr. Sinister, left, + verto, pp. Versus, to turn (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinistrorse
Literary usage of Sinistrorse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... in front of the object : so when the over- hipping is from right to left of
the observer thus placed, as in Fig. 266, it is sinistrorse ; when from ..."
2. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"It is most desirable that these terms should not continue to be employed in
contradictory senses, one party calling that sinistrorse which the other calls ..."
3. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray, Charles Sprague Sargent (1889)
"It is most desirable that these terms should not continue to be employed in
contradictory senses, one party calling that sinistrorse which the other calls ..."
4. A Manual of Structural Botany: An Introductory Textbook for Students of by Henry Hurd Rusby (1911)
"125), or the reverse, sinistrorse (Fig. 124). In determining this point, the
relations can best be understood by imagining the flower as a man, ..."
5. Il Nuovo cimento by Società italiana di fisica (1863)
"... che sono decisamente e intieramente sinistrorse per le nervature delle foglie
più giovani, ... che sono sinistrorse finalmente alla sommità superiore, ..."
6. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... then seems to pass from right to left, which they then term sinistrorse, as
the thread of an ordinary right-handed screw when held up for inspection. ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... and sinistrorse individuals in about equal numbers; depending on the origin
of the ovules being either from the right or left margin of the carpel. ..."
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