intercalary

Definitions of intercalary
  1. adjective
    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”
    synonyms:
    additive
    characterized or produced by addition
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