complemental
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The higher complemental parts, which are parallel to animal life, move more quickly, but yet without melodious connection and significant progress.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
I have done nothing which has interested me so much as Lythrum, since making out the complemental males of Cirripedes.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
Also if you ever find any species of Scalpellum, pray look for complemental males; a German author has recently doubted my observations for no reason except that the facts appeared to him so strange.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
The two expressions, song and action, were one; they were mutually complemental.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
"The complemental dot on his i of a commonly civilized human creature!" said Dr. Middleton, looking at his watch and finding it too late to leave the house before morning.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
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