# dextrorse

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Growing in a pattern that spirals clockwise around a central support; turning to the right when growing taller.
2. Having a negative torsion.

## Etymology
From Latin dextrorsum, contracted from dextrovorsum, dextroversum (“toward the right side”), from dexter (“right”) + versus, vorsus, past participle of vertere, vortere (“to turn”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/dextrorse