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complemental

[kom-pluh-men-tl] / ˌkɒm pləˈmɛn tl /


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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

The word "great" in his code should have been "gage," and its complemental words "of battle."

From Whirligigs by O. Henry

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

He blended the complemental conceptions of divinity and humanity.

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp

While of the contrasted yet complemental civic life of fullest, broadest action, what expression like the Roman eagle—the very eyes of keenness, and the spreading wings of power?

From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Patrick Geddes


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