Sinistral Definition

Sinistral Sentence Examples

• Shell bulimoid, dextral or sinistral; radular teeth, expanded at their extremities and multicuspidate.

• The same, mutatis mutandis, may occur in sinistral shells.

• Lanistes, shell sinistral, spire short or obsolete.

• This, however, is not generally retained in one plane, and the spire projects, little by little, on the side which was originally left, but finally becomes right (in dextral forms, with a clockwise direction, if viewed from the side of the spire; but counter-clockwise in sinistral forms).

• Its opening, the vent, is situated either on the middle line at the base of the tail, or on the right side, as if to balance the sinistral position of the spiraculum.