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 Schopenhauer, Arthur
Small portion of the outer integument of the complemental male, as seen with a 1/8th of an inch object glass.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
The complemental males of certain Cirripedes live like epiphytic plants either on the female or the hermaphrodite form, and are destitute of a mouth and of prehensile limbs.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
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 Geddes, Patrick
Neoteinic: applied to complemental females in Termites because, though reproductive, they retain some juvenile characters.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.