intercalary en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)
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(broadly, not-comparable) Inserted between other things
In this new model, the anterior and posterior blastemas were formed as signaling centers to direct intercalary reorganization of body regionality or positional information.
2007 February 28, Kitokazu Agata et al., “Unifying principles of regeneration I: Epimorphosis versus morphallaxis”, in Development, Growth, and Differentiation, →DOI:Breaks caused by chromosome aberrations in regions with repeats may not result in a sharp decline of viability, so that break points of chromosome rearrangements in intercalary heterochromatin may be more frequent than in other regions.
1982 December, I. F. Zhimulev et al., “Intercalary heterochromatin in Drosophila”, in Chromosoma, volume 87, →DOI, pages 197–228:
- (broadly, not-comparable) Inserted between other things ▸ 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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(broadly, not-comparable) Inserted between other things ▸ of a wing vein: between the major veins common to insect wings.
...two radial cells, second longer than first; intercalary fork fairly distinct; crossvein r-m vertical...
1953, Willis W. Wirth, “American Biting Midges of the Helid Genus Monohelea”, in Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 103, number 3320, pages 135–154:
Deriveds
intercalarily · intercalary meristem
Relateds
Translations (17)
ru високо́сный (of a time period, inserted between others) · te అధికమాసము (of a time period, inserted between others) · sh préstupnī (of a time period, inserted between others) · cs přestupný (of a time period, inserted between others) · es intercalado (of a time period, inserted between others) · ca intercalar (of a time period, inserted between others) · sh пре́ступнӣ (of a time period, inserted between others) · de compound with Schalt- (of a time period, inserted between others) · fr intercalaire (of a time period, inserted between others) · syc ܟܒܝܫ (of a time period, inserted between others) · ar كَبِيس (of a time period, inserted between others) · ja 閏 (of a time period, inserted between others) · pl przestępny (of a time period, inserted between others) · vi nhuận (of a time period, inserted between others) · cmn 閏 /闰 (of a time period, inserted between others) · bg вмъкнат (of a time period, inserted between others) · es intercalar (of a time period, inserted between others)