ADJECTIVE
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of or on the left
a sinistral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the observer
a sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye uppermost -
preferring to use left foot or hand or eye
sinistral individuals exhibit dominance of the left hand and eye
How To Use sinistral In A Sentence
- These gastropods have slender, high-spired, multiwhorled shells bearing a sinistral protoconch and were united by Knight in the family Streptacididae.
- Zhang noted that both sinistral and dextral Pa and Pb elements differed entirely.
- There are dextral species, sinistral species, and a variable species (P. suturalis-see below) all within the same genus.
- It extends parallel to Xianshuihe fault, which is a major active sinistral strike-slip fault in eastern Tibet Plateau.
- There is no trend from dextrality to sinistrality, but rather large clades characterized by one form or the other, sometimes with large-ish subclades of the complementary type.
- [CHAMA CORTICOSA] Shell thick, squamose, or concentrically laminated and imbricate; lamina striated, sinistral, crenulated interiorly; upper valve flat. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
- By the Early Devonian the Iapetus Ocean had closed and was replaced in northern Britain by an essentially transtensional regime with sinistral shearing, and accompanied by major igneous activity.
- The north - east fracture which is the south boundary of Yanshan fault block relative notable sinistral movement.
- Sinistral individuals exhibit dominance of the left hand and eye.
- It is commonly assumed that the Stanovoy sinistral shear zone and the Sakhalin-Hokkaido dextral shear zone in NE Asia are two conjugate strike-slip faults related to the India-Eurasia collision.
