DEXTRAL


Meaning of DEXTRAL in English

adj. & n.

--adj.

1. (of a person) right-handed.

2 of or on the right.

3 Zool. (of a spiral shell) with whorls rising to the right and coiling in an anticlockwise direction.

4 Zool. (of a flat-fish) with the right side uppermost.

--n. a right-handed person.

Derivatives:

dextrality n. dextrally adv.

Etymology: med.L dextralis f. L dextra right hand

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.