Definition of "dextral" []

• Of, relating to, or located on the right side; right. (adjective)
• Right-handed. (adjective)
• Zoology Of or relating to a gastropod shell that coils clockwise and has its aperture to the right when facing the observer with the apex upward. (adjective)

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• "Check that picture: Ms Saites has an extraordinarily well-developed dextral sternocleido mastoideus."
• "Could it still mate with a dextral individual of its own species?"
• "Such circles always rotate in a clockwise direction, because the genital openings of dextral slugs are on the right sides of their heads."