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complementophile

adj

Etymology

From complement + -o- + -phile.

  1. derived from complēmentum
  2. inherited from complement
  3. formed as complementophile — “complement + -o- + -phile”

Definitions

  1. Having a tendency to react with and bind to the complements in the blood.

    • With the means at present at our disposal it is impossible, except in a few favorable cases, to determine whether this plurality of complementophile groups corresponds exactly to a like plurality of cytophile groups.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for complementophile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA