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■ adjective
1》 of or on the left side or the left hand. The opposite of dextral .
↘left-handed.
2》 Geology relating to or denoting a strike-slip fault in which the motion of the block on the further side of the fault is towards the left.
3》 Zoology (of a spiral mollusc shell) with whorls rising to the left and coiling clockwise.
■ noun a left-handed person.
Derivatives
~ity noun
~ly adverb