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
It would seem to combine with outside complemental matter drifted to it at random.
From Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler
I have done nothing which has interested me so much as Lythrum, since making out the complemental males of Cirripedes.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
The complemental males of certain Cirripedes live like epiphytic plants either on the female or the hermaphrodite form, and are destitute of a mouth and of prehensile limbs.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
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
