Intercalary

What do we mean by intercalary?

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

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

Inserted between other elements or parts; interpolated. adjective

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.

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. adjective

Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary. adjective

One on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs. adjective

Of a day: extra day or days inserted into a calendar adjective

Of a month: extra month inserted into a calendar. The Hebrew calendar has such a month. adjective

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. adjective

Having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: adjective

Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)

(by extension) Inserted between other things

Words that are spelled similarly to intercalary:
intercalary, intercalar, interciliary, intercalate.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word intercalary:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe intercalary:
anterior, second, posterior, dorsal, walled, rudimentary, ventral, middle.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective intercalary:
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Words that sound like intercalary:
intercalary, intercooler, intercourse, intercalate, intercool, intermarry, intercultural, inter alia, untruly, enterally, intactly, interlard.