dextral
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An example of a dextral, right-lateral strike-slip fault is the San Andreas Fault, which denotes a transform boundary between the North American and Pacific plates.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
If the opposing block moves right, it is dextral motion.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Given that handedness is apparent early in life and the vast majority of people are right-handed, we are almost certainly dextral by nature.
From Scientific American • Mar. 24, 2013
On this last hypothesis the mutation here considered might be a heterozygous specimen, with the dextral condition dominant in the head and the sinistral in the body.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.
Adj. dextral, right-handed; dexter, dextrorsal†, dextrorse†; ambidextral†, ambidextrous; dextro-.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
