intercalary in English

adjective
1
(of a day or a month) inserted in the calendar to harmonize it with the solar year, e.g., February 29 in leap years.
In the old calendar, an intercalary month of 22 or 23 days called Mercedonius was inserted after the Festival of Terminalia in every other year or as needed.
2
(of the meristem of a plant) located between its daughter cells, especially (in a grass) at or near the base of a leaf.
In these stems and leaves with intercalary meristems, the upward transpiration stream clearly bypassed most of the enlarging cells.

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1. Conidia appear arthrosporous, terminal or intercalary, aerial on an agar surface.

2. During maturation aeciospores underwent a two- to three-fold increase in diameter and the intercalary cells disintegrated.

3. Where Acaulescence predominates due to activity of three intercalary meristems at the base of the accrescent cotyledon (6,11)

4. (c) Chlamydospore: During unfavourable condition, thick-walled, nutrition rich, intercalary mycelium segments are developed by septation of mycelium which are termed as Chlamydospores

5. What Is A leap year? Leap years are years where an extra, or intercalary, day is added to the end of the shortest month, February

6. The tubular thallus of Lacustromyces hiemalis gen. et sp.nov. has intercalary thin-walled zoosporangia, has thick-walled resistant sporangia, and does not grow at temperatures greater than 23 °C.

7. The Chlamydospore has been defined as a thick-walled, non-deciduous, intercalary or terminal, asexual spore formed by the rounding of a cell or cells (Ainsworth 1971)

8. The overall 5-year survivorship for the 59 intercalary Allografts was 79%, and we found no significant differences between allograft survival in patients receiving or not receiving adjuvant chemotherapy

9. The Annuary Calendar is a Calendar invented by Karl Palmen in which each year has twelve regular months alternating between 29 and 30 days plus a 30-day intercalary month occurring once every 33 months