Meaning

4 senses
  1. (not comparable)Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)

    compound with Schalt-

    високо́сныйvisokósnyj

    having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year:

  2. (broadly, not comparable)Inserted between other things

  3. Inserted between other things

    (broadly, not comparable)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.

  4. (broadly, not comparable)Of a wing vein: between the major veins common to insect wings.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
of a time period, inserted between others:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of a time period, inserted between others:

Origin

From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (

From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).

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