intercalary
IPA: ɪntɝkˈeɪɫɝi
noun
- Such a time period
adjective
- Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)
- (sciences, by extension) Inserted between other things
- (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.
- (entomology) of a wing vein: between the major veins common to insect wings.
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Examples of "intercalary" in Sentences
- It may grow by intercalary growth.
- Nor does it have an intercalary month.
- Horsetails also exhibit intercalary growth.
- The decision to insert the intercalary month, etc.
- I even gave an example of an intercalary sixth month.
- Or indeed the movement of the intercalary day to 29 February.
- It is a 13 month 28 day calendar, with an intercalary period.
- An intercalary month was used to keep a fixed relation to the seasons.
- Celsus names the Intercalary month, just as he names the Intercalary year.
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