Definition of "laevorotatory" [læ•vo•ro•ta•to•ry]

• Alternative spelling of levorotatory. (adjective)

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• "It was found chemically that cane sugar absorbs the elements of water and changes into a mixture of two different sugars, one being weakly dextrorotatory and the other strongly laevorotatory, hence the resultant is a rotation to the left."
• "Rotation in the opposite direction is known to the initiated as laevorotatory or laevogyrate, from the Latin laevus meaning ` left. '"
• "From this we get levulose ` the fruit sugar with a laevorotatory effect on polarized light. '"