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Complemental   Listen
adjective
Complemental  adj.  
1.
Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing. "Complemental ceremony."
2.
Complimentary; courteous. (Obs.)
Complemental air (Physiol.), the air (averaging 100 cubic inches) which can be drawn into the lungs in addition to the tidal air, by the deepest possible inspiration.
Complemental males (Zool.), peculiar small males living parasitically on the ordinary hermaphrodite individuals of certain barnacles.





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"Complemental" Quotes from Famous Books



... accumulating facts and speculating on the subject of variation without having worked out my due share of species." (II. p. 31.) The eight or nine years of labour, which resulted in a monograph of first-rate importance in systematic zoology (to say nothing of such novel points as the discovery of complemental males), left Darwin no room to reproach himself on this score, and few will share his "doubt whether the work was worth the consumption of so ...
— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley
... ecclesiastical comprehension and conformity. And among the many things we have to be thankful for in our more emancipated and more catholic day, it is not the least that Rutherford and Hooker lie in peace and in complemental fulness beside one another on the tables of ...
— Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents • Alexander Whyte


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