dextro gyrous (dekstrojirus)

[L. dexter, right, + gyrus, a circle: see gyre.] Gyrating or circling to the right. dextrorotatory (deks-trō-rō'ta-tō-ri), a. [L. dexter, right, + E. rotatory.] "Same as dextro gyrate. [ dextrorse + dextrorsal (deks-trôr's al), a. -al.] Same as dextrorse. dextrorse (deks-trôrs'), a. [L. dextrorsum, uncontracted dextro vor sum, -versum, toward the right, spiral line, helix, or climbing plant. [In botany this Bentham, Hooker, Darwin, Gray, etc., use it as above defined. Linnæus, Braun, the De Candolles, and many others give it the opposite meaning.]