Meanings
- not comparableGrowing in a pattern that spirals clockwise around a central support; turning to the right when growing taller.
They are arranged in distinct dextrorse spirals, and are about one length apart.
1907, John Arthur Thomson, William Dawson Henderson, James Ritchie, Studies on Alcyonarians and Antipatharians, page 92 more examples
Here it is important to note whether theoverlapping is from right to left, Dextrorse (Fig. 125), or the reverse, Sinsitrorse (Fig. 124).
1911, Henry Hurd Rusby, A Manual of Structural Botany, page 60At completion the suture line follows a dextrorse spiral in the capsule wall of nearly one revolution from base to tipe (Fig. 10).
1997, American Journal of Botany - Volume 84, page 1338
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivespiraling upward from left to right
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Origin
- Latindextrorsum
- Englishdextrorse
From Latin dextrorsum, contracted from dextrovorsum, dextroversum (“toward the right side”), from dexter (“right”) + versus, vorsus, past participle of vertere, vortere (“to turn”).
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Spanish dextrorso
- dextrorsoTranslations
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dextrorse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dextrorse
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