Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: "Feb. 29 is an intercalary day";
- Example: "a leap year is an intercalary year"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Intercalary \In*ter"ca*la*ry\ (?; 277), a. [L. intercalaris,
intercalarius: cf. F. intercalaire. See Intercalate.]
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1. (Chron.) Inserted or introduced among others in the
calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now
applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in
the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.
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2. Introduced or inserted among others; additional;
supernumerary. "Intercalary spines." --Owen.
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This intercalary line . . . is made the last of a
triplet. --Beattie.
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Intercalary day (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an
intermittent disease occurs. --Mayne.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
intercalary
adj 1: having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year
correspond to the solar year: "Feb. 29 is an intercalary
day"; "a leap year is an intercalary year"