Intercalary vs Intercalate - What's the difference?
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(of a time period) inserted between others; leap (as in leap day or leap year)
(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.
To insert an extra, leap, day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
* 1844 , , Essays: Second Series , ch. 2:
To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The has such a month.
(molecular biology) To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.
Intercalate is a related term of intercalary.
Intercalary is a derived term of intercalate.
As a adjective intercalary
is (of a time period) inserted between others; leap (as in leap day or leap year).As a verb intercalate is
to insert an extra, leap, day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.intercalary
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(-)Derived terms
* intercalarilySee also
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(wikipedia intercalate)Verb
(intercalat)- '[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day. Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere.