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dextral

[dek-struhl] / ˈdɛk strəl /
ADJECTIVE
right
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Antonyms
WEAK


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If the opposing block moves right, it is dextral motion.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2017

An example of a dextral, right-lateral strike-slip fault is the San Andreas Fault, which denotes a transform boundary between the North American and Pacific plates.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2017

Given that handedness is apparent early in life and the vast majority of people are right-handed, we are almost certainly dextral by nature.

From Scientific American Mar. 24, 2013

The circuit used by the decorator of this box is dextral or sunwise.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

Maslin stated that the anal tube is median in the specimens that he examined; we have not studied Maslin's specimens, but all tadpoles of Smilisca that we have examined have a dextral anal tube.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.




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