amphidextrous

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English

Etymology

From amphi- + Latin dexter (right) + -ous. See ambidextrous.

Adjective

amphidextrous (comparative more amphidextrous, superlative most amphidextrous)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of ambidextrous
    • 1963, Harold Saxton Burr, Classics in neurology:
      An amphidextrous man. Typhoid at eleven. Insufficiently treated chancre at twenty-eight.