complemental

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It would seem to combine with outside complemental matter drifted to it at random. 

From Unconscious Memory by Butler, Samuel

Body of the above complemental male, consisting of the thorax supporting the four pairs of limbs, and of the terminal abdominal lobe.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

The males differ in every point of detail, from the complemental males of S. vulgare, but yet present so close a general resemblance, that a comparative description will be most convenient.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

We have noticed the many instances of tiny complemental males, in connection with hermaphrodite forms, which, as Darwin states, must have arisen from the advantage ensuring cross-fertilisation in the females who harbour them.

From The Truth About Woman by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

The large relative size of the rostrum in the complemental male both of this species and of S. Peronii, is a remarkable character, which I can in no way account for.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles