complemental
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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
This, less the tidal air and the reserve air, is called the complemental air.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
The complemental males of certain Cirripedes live like epiphytic plants either on the female or the hermaphrodite form, and are destitute of a mouth and of prehensile limbs.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
The outer integument was covered with rather thick, very minute bristles, each about, 2/10,000th of an inch in length, and therefore only half the length of those on the complemental males of S. vulgare.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
No; the response must be in kind, to be truly complemental.
From Quaint Courtships by William Dean Howells
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