INTERCALARY

intercalary

(adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: “Feb. 29 is an intercalary day”; “a leap year is an intercalary year”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

intercalary (not comparable)

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

(science, 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.

Source: Wiktionary

In*ter"ca*la*ry, a. Etym: [L. intercalaris, intercalarius: cf. F. intercalaire. See Intercalate.]

1. (Chron.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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