complemental

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If we could get hold of a complemental critic, a critic who saw what the age did not see, and who saw rightly what the age mistook, we should have a critic of inestimable value.

From The English Constitution by Bagehot, Walter

The two are complemental and necessary to each other.

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)

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 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

On the males and complemental males of certain Cirripedes, and on rudimentary structures.

From Life of Charles Darwin by Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)