complemental
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Origin of complemental
First recorded in 1595–1605; complement + -al 1
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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
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
It would seem to combine with outside complemental matter drifted to it at random.
From Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler
Neoteinic: applied to complemental females in Termites because, though reproductive, they retain some juvenile characters.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
It is easy to see that intellectually, as well as physically, men and women are complemental, and when the conclusions arrived at are identical they become confirmatory of each other.
From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall
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