complemental

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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

Certain hermaphrodite cirripedes are aided in their reproduction by a whole cluster of what I have called complemental males, which differ wonderfully from the ordinary hermaphrodite form.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles

The outer integument was covered with rather thick, very minute bristles, each about, 2/10,000th of an inch in length, and therefore only half the length of those on the complemental males of S. vulgare.

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

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 Culp, Daniel Wallace

It is easy to see that intellectually, as well as physically, men and women are complemental, and when the conclusions arrived at are identical they become confirmatory of each other.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus