the Latin laevus, meaning "left side". The equivalent French terms are dextrogyre and lévogyre. These are used infrequently in English, but sometimes they...

legs on its left side, walks around the mountain counterclockwise; the dextrogyre dahu, with the shorter legs on its right side, walks clockwise around...

as levogyres, compared to snails with right-facing shells, known as dextrogyres, because the two forms have difficulty mating with each other. This proportion...