ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEXTRORSE
From Latin dextrorsum towards the right, from dextro- + vorsus turned, variant of versus, from vertere to turn.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEXTRORSE»
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dextrorse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Curves of Life: Being an Account of Spiral Formations ...
Wiesner censured the Darwins for using the common sense and popular
terminology in their studies of twining plants. But modern botany in its desire for
precision has only succeeded in establishing confusion. What advantage has
dextrorse, ...
Theodore Andrea Cook, Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, 1979
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Phytography as a Fine Art
3b. dextrorse or to the right (dextrorsum volubilis) . For a person placed within the
spiral ascending to the right. Humulus Lupulus; Lonicera Periclymenum ;
Testudinaria elephantipes (branches). In the genus Dioscorea some species
twine ...
Jan Willem Moll, Johannes Cornelis Schoute, 1934
Diagram of a dextrorse biastrepsis with 18 leaves spread unevenly over 3 spiral
turns. I-capitulum of shoot. of the twisted zone, is joined to the right margin of the
first leaf of the trimerous pseudo-whorl, with a curved cork line, which runs along
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Roger V. Jean, Denis Barabé, 1998
... flap of skin that hangs from the throat of certain animals. dextrorse Growing in a
right-handed spiral. Dentine Dentine GLOSSARY demibranch – dextrorse a b c
The double helix model of DNA The. 37 demibranch – dextrorse GLOSSARY.
Diagram Group Staff, 2009
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American journal of botany
In Equisetum the formation of segment and sextant cells occurs in either a
dextrorse or sinistrorse direction around the apical cell (Golub and Wetmore,
1948); the direction is apparently consistent for a given species. In at least one
species of ...
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A Portuguese-English Dictionary
dextrogyrous, dextro-rotatory, clockwise. dextromano -na [ex = £s] (adj.)
dextromanual, right- handed; (in.,/.) a right-handed person. dextropedal [ex = gs] (
adj.) dextropedal. dextrorrotatorio -ria [ex = es] (adj.) dextrorotatory, clockwise.
dextrorse ...
James Lumpkin Taylor, Priscilla Clark Martin, 1970
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The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of ...
Native English cognates include weigh and its homonym way. To deviate is
literally to go out of one's way. In statistics, a standard deviation is a measure of
how far the data "go out of their way" from the mean. [32, 243] dextrorse or
dextrorsum ...
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The Pre-Islamic Coinage of Eastern Arabia
Class. XXXI. Dextrorse. Variants. of. Class. XXIX. (222-245). The coins below are
typologically, if not always stylistically, the same as those of Class XXIX, the only
difference being that the stick-figure faces right rather than left. Thus, when ...
Daniel T. Potts, Rémy Boucharlat, Monique Drieux, 1991
[The dextrorse circumambulation of three kinds] 1-2. I will tell the process of
dextrorse circumambulation and prostration summarily. Of the two, the dextrorse
circumambulation is well-known as being of three kinds. The first, called
dextrorse, ...
Niddodi Ramachandra Bhatt, Jean Filliozat, Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat, 2005
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Systematics of Gonolobus and the Gonolobinae (Apocynaceae, ...
The flowers of West Indian Gonolobus species are imbricate and dextrorse in bud
(Fig. 3G). Imbricate aestivation is seen also in other members of West Indian
Gonolobinae, but not all other genera exhibit dextrorse buds. CALYCES. Calyces
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