complemental

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The two expressions, song and action, were one; they were mutually complemental.

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

Also if you ever find any species of Scalpellum, pray look for complemental males; a German author has recently doubted my observations for no reason except that the facts appeared to him so strange.

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

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

By so living together a wise husband and a loving wife will soon discover that they two are but complemental to each other—like the Will and Understanding of one individual.

From Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Guernsey, Henry Newell

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