complemental
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Small portion of the outer integument of the complemental male, as seen with a 1/8th of an inch object glass.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
If we could get hold of a complemental critic, a critic who saw what the age did not see, and who saw rightly what the age mistook, we should have a critic of inestimable value.
From The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
He blended the complemental conceptions of divinity and humanity.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
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 John Ruskin
For any analogy to the existence of males, complemental to hermaphrodites, we must look to the vegetable kingdom.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
