complemental
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While of the contrasted yet complemental civic life of fullest, broadest action, what expression like the Roman eagle—the very eyes of keenness, and the spreading wings of power?
From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Patrick Geddes
Perhaps they were really mated, their pettinesses and selfishnesses peculiarly complemental.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
This, less the tidal air and the reserve air, is called the complemental air.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
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
Body of the above complemental male, consisting of the thorax supporting the four pairs of limbs, and of the terminal abdominal lobe.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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