intercalar

Adjective

intercalary (not comparable)

1. Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)
2. (broadly) Inserted between other things
   • Breaks caused by chromosome aberrations in regions with repeats may not result in a sharp decline of viability, so that break points of chromosome rearrangements in intercalary heterochromatin may be more frequent than in other regions.1982 December, I. F. Zhimulev et al., “Intercalary heterochromatin in Drosophila”, in Chromosoma, volume 87, →DOI, pages 197–228
   1. (broadly) 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.
   2. (broadly) of a wing vein: between the major veins common to insect wings.
      • ...two radial cells, second longer than first; intercalary fork fairly distinct; crossvein r-m vertical...1953, Willis W. Wirth, “American Biting Midges of the Helid Genus Monohelea”, in Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 103, number 3320, pages 135–154

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