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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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary. "Intercalary spines." --Owen. [1913 Webster] This intercalary line . . . is made the last of a triplet. --Beattie. [1913 Webster] Intercalary day (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs. --Mayne. [1913 Webster]
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"