单词 | intercalary |
释义 | intercalary/ɪnˈtəːkəl(ə)ri / /ˌɪntəˈkal(ə)ri /adjective 1(Of a day or a month) inserted in the calendar to harmonize it with the solar year, e.g. 29 February in leap years: eighteen months of twenty days each and five intercalary days...
2(Of an academic year or period) additional to the standard course and taken at a different institution: the intercalary year is taken between the second and final years 3Of the nature of an insertion: elaborate intercalary notes 4 Botany (Of the meristem of a plant) located between its daughter cells, especially (in a grass) at or near the base of a leaf.In these stems and leaves with intercalary meristems, the upward transpiration stream clearly bypassed most of the enlarging cells....
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin intercalarius, from intercalare (see intercalate). |
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