complemental
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For any analogy to the existence of males, complemental to hermaphrodites, we must look to the vegetable kingdom.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
We have noticed the many instances of tiny complemental males, in connection with hermaphrodite forms, which, as Darwin states, must have arisen from the advantage ensuring cross-fertilisation in the females who harbour them.
From The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
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
It would seem to combine with outside complemental matter drifted to it at random.
From Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler
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
