complemental
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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
It appears that the method, when adopted at all, was considered to belong to the complemental and merely decorative parts of a picture.
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
He falls in love, not so much with what is ideally lovable in a woman, but what is practically complemental to his own nature.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
Neoteinic: applied to complemental females in Termites because, though reproductive, they retain some juvenile characters.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
In the parasitic complemental male of S. vulgare, I also most plainly saw spermatozoa.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
