What is having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells called?
sinistral — (Zoöl.) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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