leftwards

leftwards

English

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English left
English -wards
English leftwards

    From left + -wards.

    Adverb

    leftwards (not comparable)

    1. Leftward; towards the left.
      • 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:
        The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]
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