intercalary
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnt.ɚˈkæl.ɚ.i/
The English word “intercalary” has 5 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)
- Inserted between other things
- 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.
- of a wing vein: between the major veins common to insect wings.
noun
Etymology
From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).
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More English words
- INTERCAL
- intercalant
- intercalarily
- Intercalaris
- intercalary meristem
- intercalate
- intercalated
- intercalating
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