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Webster 1913 Edition
Intercalary
In-ter′ca-la-ry
(?; 277)
, Adj.
1.
(Chron.)
Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar;
as, an
; – now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See intercalary
month, day, etc.Bissextile
, Noun.
2.
Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary.
“Intercalary spines.” Owen.
This
intercalary
line . . . is made the last of a triplet. Beattie.
Intercalary day
(Med.)
, one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs.
Mayne.
Definition 2024
intercalary
intercalary
English
Adjective
intercalary (not comparable)
- (of a time period) inserted between others; leap (as in leap day or leap year)
- (botany) of a meristem: situated between zones of permanent tissue, thus a shoot growing at the base of a leaf, in comparison with apical growth at the tip of a root or plant.
Translations
of a time period, inserted between others
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