dextrorse

dextrorse
dextrorsely, adv.
/dek"strawrs, dek strawrs"/, adj. Bot.
(of a climbing plant) rising helically from right to left, as seen from outside the helix (opposed to sinistrorse).
Also, dextrorsal.
[1860-65; < L dextrorsum toward the right, earlier dextrovorsum, equiv. to dextro- to the right (see DEXTER) + vorsum, acc. of vorsus, var. of VERSUS, ptp. of vertere to turn]

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