complemental

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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 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 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

In a happy marriage these differences become complemental, rendering possible that superior unity in which the two are made one.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus

The higher complemental parts, which are parallel to animal life, move more quickly, but yet without melodious connection and significant progress.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur