sinistral

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

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