complemental
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Perhaps they were really mated, their pettinesses and selfishnesses peculiarly complemental.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
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 Charles Darwin
On the males and complemental males of certain Cirripedes, and on rudimentary structures.
From Life of Charles Darwin by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
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 Charles Darwin
In the parasitic complemental male of S. vulgare, I also most plainly saw spermatozoa.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
