Jan

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Laeotropic

Filed Under L 

It means “leftward-turning,” and is usually used to describe shells and things pertaining to marine life, biology, and so on. Like anti-clockwise things, it’s a word given because it’s denoting a rarer state, but without defining it as ‘not [the usual state.]’ It evokes stairwells under the ocean made of coral or calcium carbonate, and scientists and collectors in the Victorian era. Being left-handed it appeals personally to me enough that I used it in the title of my webpages.

Jen

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