Definitions for sinistral

sinistral sin·is·tral

Spelling: [sin-uh-struh l]
IPA: /ˈsɪn ə strəl/

Sinistral is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 365 anagrams from letters in sinistral (aiilnrsst).

Definitions for sinistral

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or on the left side; left (opposed to dextral).
  2. left-handed.
  3. (of certain gastropod shells) coiling counterclockwise, as seen from the apex.

Origin of sinistral

First recorded in 1425-75; late Middle English word from Medieval Latin word sinistrālis. See sinister, -al1

Examples for sinistral

The sinistral circuit is one in which the center is on the left hand, while the dextral circuit has its center to the right.

This is carried outward in a sinistral spiral to the noded shoulder.

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

sinistral: Having the aperture of the shell at the left; opposite of dextral.

sinistral: extending to or at the left from the median line.

If we were very fortunate, we might find a sinistral, or “left-handed” specimen.

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.

With unimportant differences, the process of metamorphosis in the sinistral fish is parallel to that in the dextral fish.

Gasteropod shells may be sinistral or dextral, according as the whorls turn to the left or right.

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