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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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... 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


Words linked to "Complemental" :   additive, completing


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