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

It would seem to combine with outside complemental matter drifted to it at random. 

From Unconscious Memory by Butler, Samuel

The large relative size of the rostrum in the complemental male both of this species and of S. Peronii, is a remarkable character, which I can in no way account for.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

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

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