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laevorotatory

laevorotatory is the alternative spelling of levorotatory.

Meaning of levorotatory

Adjective

levorotatory (not comparable)

  1. (of an optically active compound or crystal) That rotates the plane of polarized light to the left, or counter-clockwise. Notation: (−) or formerly lowercase l-.
    • Levofloxacin is the levorotatory enantiomer of the medication ofloxacin.

Forms of laevorotatory

comparativemore laevorotatory
superlativemost laevorotatory

Questions about laevorotatory

What is laevorotatory the alternative spelling of?
Laevorotatory is the alternative spelling of levorotatory.

Words near laevorotatory in the dictionary

  1. laevogyre
  2. laevogyrous
  3. laevorotary
  4. laevorotation
  5. laevorotations
  6. laevorotatory
  7. laevoversion
  8. laevoversions
  9. laevulin
  10. laevulinate
  11. laevulinates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laevorotatory (page history and authors); levorotatory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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