complemental
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Origin of complemental
First recorded in 1595–1605; complement + -al 1
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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
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
The two expressions, song and action, were one; they were mutually complemental.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
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
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