Turning or growing toward the right, especially used in biology to describe how certain organisms or plants move or spiral in a right-ward direction.
From dextro- (Latin dexter, 'right') + tropic (from Greek tropos, 'turn'). This botanical and biological term developed in the 18th-19th centuries as scientists categorized plant growth patterns.
Honeysuckle vines spiral counterclockwise, but many climbing beans spiral clockwise—and scientists still aren't entirely sure why plants 'choose' their spiral direction!
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