adj. Growing upward in a spiral that turns from right to left: a sinistrorse vine. [Latin sinistrōrsus, turned toward the left, contraction of *sinistrōversus : sinistrō, toward the left, from ablative of sinister, left + versus, past participle of vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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