intercalary
Meaning of intercalary
adjective
- (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
- (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
- (of the meristem of a plant) located between its daughter cells, especially (in a grass) at or near the base of a leaf.
early 17th century: from Latin intercalarius, from intercalare (see intercalate).
Information about intercalary
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Hyphenation of intercalary
in-ter-calary
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- intercalary is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with intercalary
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