complemental
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Etymology
Origin of complemental
First recorded in 1595–1605; complement + -al 1
Example Sentences
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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
The word "great" in his code should have been "gage," and its complemental words "of battle."
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
It would seem to combine with outside complemental matter drifted to it at random.
From Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler
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
By so living together a wise husband and a loving wife will soon discover that they two are but complemental to each other—like the Will and Understanding of one individual.
From Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Henry Newell Guernsey
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