intercalary
- Adjective. of a day: extra day or days inserted into a calendar.
- Adjective. of a month: extra month inserted into a calendar. The Hebrew calendar has such a month.
- Adjective. (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.
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