Crossword-Solution: SINISTRAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sinistral | a. | Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral. |
| Sinistral | a. | Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SINISTRAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Opposite of dextral | 1 answer |
| Left-handed | 5 answers |
| all thumbs | 23 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SINISTRAL (5)
And Octa, after the death of his father Hengist, came from the sinistral part of the island to the kingdom of Kent, and from him have proceeded all the kings of that province, to the present period.
With gasteropods or shell-fish, the right and left sides are extremely unlike; the far greater number of species are dextral, with rare and occasional reversals of development; and some few are normally sinistral; but certain species of Bulimus, and many Achatinellæ[61] are as often sinistral as dextral.
When Gharib heard this, he also took to horse and, calling his people to the combat, rode out, with the Jinn on his dexter hand and the men on his sinistral.
After a short, rapid flight almost on the plane of the hand of the thrower, the toy soars abruptly upwards, and taking a sinistral course, returns, twirling rapidly, to the thrower, occasionally making two complete revolutions.
The dorsal fin belonging to the normal sinistral body would therefore have a congenital tendency in the metamorphosis to unite with the head on the outer side of the original lower or right eye after it has moved to the left side.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1982–2015).