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sinistral
adjective
- on the left-hand side; left
- left-handed
- having whorls that rise to the apex in clockwise spirals from the opening at the lower left: said of the shells of some gastropods
Related Forms:
- sinistrality noun
- sinistrally adverb
See sinistral in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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