complemental

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

From Unconscious Memory by Butler, Samuel

Neoteinic: applied to complemental females in Termites because, though reproductive, they retain some juvenile characters.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

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 dot on his i of a commonly civilized human creature!" said Dr. Middleton, looking at his watch and finding it too late to leave the house before morning.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

It is a well-known optical fact that the color of shadow is complemental to that of light: and that therefore, in general terms, warm light has cool shadow, and cool light hot shadow.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John