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Meaning of "sinistral"
sinistral (adjective) - Of or on the left side; left-handed or left-oriented
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- Of, facing, or on the left side.
- Left-handed.
- Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed.
- Having left lateral fault movement.
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The sinistral movements happened therefore later.
It is associated with a sinistral strike slip movement.
The scientific term for this is sinistral.
The shell is sinistral and planispiral.
They are coiled to resemble a small sinistral pupa.
Sinistral tear faults have affected the rock.
I was at the beach and found a sinistral shell.
Sinistral portal hypertension.
There are both dextral and sinistral species.
Sinistral and dextral.
I was out on the beach and found a sinistral shell.
Sinistral shells are those that have the opening to the left of the coil.
No evidence was observed for major sinistral movement.
Left-handed or sinistral specimens occur rarely.
Our victim was a sinistral.
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Sinistral thereof, display of fan activity.
Limacina rangii has a sinistral and very thin shell.
The shear sense in the Estivaux granite is uniformly sinistral.
The shell is sinistral or left-handed in its coiling.
All of the gastropods in this superfamily are sinistral in shell coiling.
The dextral or sinistral shell is ovate-oblong and subventricose.
The nucleus is sinistral.
A left-stepping bend on a sinistral fault, a zone of extension or transtension is generated.
All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.
In its interior dextral and sinistral shearing interfere in a non-coaxial fashion.
Shells of Glyptophysa are always sinistral.
Therefore, a deformation and sinistral slippage zone appeared between the two lower plates.
This species has a left-handed or sinistral shell.
The shear movement is sinistral for the northeast fractures and dextral for the north-northwest fractures.
Family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.
A progressive, exclusively sinistral ( left-sided ) torticollis was the most obvious symptom of experimental petriellidiosis.
The shell of this species is left-handed sinistral.
All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells.
The majority of species in this family are left-handed or sinistral.
Like all other planorbids it has a sinistral or left-coiling shell.
However, the Quaternary movement is believed to be sinistral.
The snails in this species have sinistral or left-coiling shells.
The most common was the lightning whelk, which has a left-handed or sinistral spiral.
The shell of this species is sinistral ( left-handed ) in its coiling.
The shells of species in the genus Physa are left-handed or sinistral.
The curituba pluton is in shear zones terminations sinistral and / or ne-sw direction fractures.
The shell coiling in this species is left-handed, aka sinistral.
Some of the species in this family are sinistral ( left-handed ) in their shell coiling.
Strike-slip faults with left-lateral motion are also known as sinistral faults.
Mr. Sinistral had it all planned out.
There was little vertical displacement, but Mwembeshi is a major sinistral transcurrent shear zone.
Mount Ararat lies within a complex, sinistral pull-apart basin that originally was a single, continuous depression.
This species, like all planorbids, has a sinistral shell.
The Physidae, sinistral pond snails.
Boudinaged quartz vein ( with strain fringe ) showing sinistral shear sense.
