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adj. Inserted in the calendar to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year. Used of a day or month.

adj. Having such a day or month inserted. Used of a year.

adj. Inserted between other elements or parts; interpolated.

adj. of a day: extra day or days inserted into a calendar

adj. of a month: extra month inserted into a calendar. The Hebrew calendar has such a month.

adj. 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.

adj. Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; ; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.

adj. Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary.

In chronology, inserted in the calendar out of regular order, as an extra day or month; having an additional day or month, as one of a cycle of years.

Hence Inserted or coming between others; introduced or existing interstitially: as, intercalary beds in geology.

In biology, intermediate in character between two types, yet not representing the actual genetic passage from one form to the other; interposed or intercalated, yet not biologically transitional.

In medicine, the days intervening between the critical days or crises of a disease.

In anatomy, additional; supernumerary; inserted between other parts, as the cartilages on the dorsal side of the vertebral column in many elasmobranchs.

adj. having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year:

"In order to remedy this, the Chinese intercalated a month once in about thirty-three moons, and called the intercalary month by the same name as the one preceding it, both with regard to the common numbers 1-12, and with regard to the two endless cycles of twelve signs and sixty signs, by which moons are calculated for ever, in the past and in the future."

additive   

intercalary days    intercalary growth    intercalary verse   

intercalation    intercalate   

bissextile   

intercalarily   

additional    supernumerary   

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