Definition of Intercelary
In*ter"ca*la*ry (?; 277), a. [L.
intercalaris, intercalarius: cf. F.
intercalaire. See Intercalate.]
1. (Chron.) Inserted or introduced
among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day,
etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted
in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile,
n.
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- of a day: extra day or days inserted into a calendar
- of a month: extra month inserted into a calendar. The Hebrew calendar has such a month.
- (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.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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