sinistral
sinistral
Definition
sin·is·tral (sin′is trəl)
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
Etymology: OFr < L sinistra, left hand: see sinister
sin′·is·tral′·ity (-tral′ə tē) noun
sin′·is·trally adverb
Browse dictionary entries near sinistral
- sinister
- Sining
- Sinicism
- Sinhalese
- Sinhala
- singularly
- singularize
- singularity
- singular
- singspiel
- sinistro-
- sinistrodextral
- sinistrorse
- sinistrous
- Sinitic
- sink
- sink in
- sinkage
- sinker
- sinkhole
