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dextral

/dek-struhl/US // ˈdɛk strəl //UK // (ˈdɛkstrəl) //

糊口,糊涂虫,糊涂蛋,糊涂的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or on the right side; right.
    • : right-handed.
    • : Also dexiotropic. Zoology. coiling clockwise, as seen from the apex.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • A genus of minute land shells, resembling Vertigo, but separated because they are dextral, while Vertigo is sinistral.

  • Dextral animals, with shell coiled pseudo-sinistrally; operculum with sinistral spiral; pallial cavity dorsal.

  • Shell thin, dextral, with prominent spire and oval aperture; no inferior pallial lobe.

  • Shell bulimoid, dextral or sinistral; radular teeth, expanded at their extremities and multicuspidate.

  • Vertigo (Sphyradium) edentula is dextral and without denticles.