sinistral

IPA: sˈɪnɪstrʌɫ

Of, facing, or on the left side.
Left-handed.
(zoology, of certain spiral shells) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed.
(geology) Having left lateral fault movement.

Examples of "sinistral" in Sentences

Even as a sinistral I found this quite a struggle.
The Halloween zombie snail with its sinistral shell is indeed amusing.
A sinistral snail, on the other hand, would have its genital opening on the left side of its head.
As its name implies and the above picture shows, B. sinistrum is a left-handed or sinistral species.
Being one who is sinistral in the manipulation of firearms and other worldly devices, I have depended on Savage rifles for quite some time.
So Dave your task as a fellow sinistral shooter is to check out the new Ruger lefty line up at the Shot Show next week and report back on anythng sexy you find (including booth babes).
The evolutionary result of this is that sinistral species or closely related species with oppositely coiled shells are more common among tall-shelled lineages than among wide-shelled ones.
Therefore, an aberrant individual with a tall sinistral shell among tall-shelled dextral conspecifics is more likely to be able to mate and leave offspring than one with a wide sinistral shell among wide-shelled dextral conspecifics.
And so it was that he left hearth and sinistral home; lord idiot father and princess thief mother, with no word, and so also Pandia, daughter of Hippodamia, that white-fire striking heated beauty, sat all unknowing like a dwarf in the sand, or a hippo/horse with five hearts and a dung heap for a pillow, of her lover's fate.