complemental

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It appears that the method, when adopted at all, was considered to belong to the complemental and merely decorative parts of a picture.

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

The males differ in every point of detail, from the complemental males of S. vulgare, but yet present so close a general resemblance, that a comparative description will be most convenient.

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

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 Darwin, Charles

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

From Unconscious Memory by Butler, Samuel

Certain hermaphrodite cirripedes are aided in their reproduction by a whole cluster of what I have called complemental males, which differ wonderfully from the ordinary hermaphrodite form.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles