Dex"tral (?), a. [From Dexter.]

Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left.

Dextral shell Zool., a spiral shell the whorls of which turn from left right, or like the hands of a watch when the apex of the spire is toward the eye of the observer.

 

© Webster 1913.

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