leftwards

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English

Etymology

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 []