— dextrorsely , adv.
/dek"strawrs, dek strawrs"/ , adj. Bot.
(of a climbing plant) rising helically from right to left, as seen from outside the helix (opposed to sinistrorse ).
Also, dextrorsal .
[ 1860-65; dextrorsum toward the right, earlier dextrovorsum, equiv. to dextro- to the right (see DEXTER) + vorsum, acc. of vorsus, var. of VERSUS, ptp. of vertere to turn ]