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 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)

It appears that the method, when adopted at all, was considered to belong to the complemental and merely decorative parts of a picture.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John

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 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