EGAVE

intercalary

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)
  2. adjective 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. of a wing vein: between the major veins common to insect wings.
  3. adjective 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. adjective of a wing vein: between the major veins common to insect wings.
  5. noun Such a time period

Similar words

added intervening interim off heterocysts intercalatory intercalar intercalative interlunary intercalating

Often followed by

month days months growth meristem day cells meristems bands

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