单词 | dextrorse |
释义 | dextrorseadj. Turned towards the right hand. Used by botanists in two opposite senses. The earlier authors, Linnæus, the de Candolles, etc., used it as = ‘to the right-hand of the observer’; modern botanists generally use it as = ‘to the right hand of the plant, or of a person round whom the plant might be twining’, which is to the left of the external observer.) ΚΠ 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iv. §2. 140 Direction of Overlapping. It may be to the right (dextrorse). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1864 |
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