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Meaning of SINISTRORSAL

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  (botany) spiraling upward from right to left; "sinistrorse vines"
 
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 Synonyms: sinistral, sinistrorse
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sin`is*tror"sal\, a. [L. sinistrorsus,
sinistroversus, turned toward the left side; sinister left +
vertere, vortere, versum, vorsum, to turn.]
Rising spirally from right to left (of the spectator);
sinistrorse.
 
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