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In these stems and leaves with intercalary meristems, the upward transpiration stream clearly bypassed most of the enlarging cells.
Leaves are formed from an intercalary meristem which is positioned within the leaf sheaths of subtending leaves.
However, the intercalary meristem is considerably longer when considering the leaf extension zone.
In many instances intercalary meristems function for only a short time and eventually completely differentiate into mature tissues.
Cell division occurs mainly at the intercalary meristem at the base of the internode, but also throughout the internode at early stages of internode development.
It was not until well into Roman times that an intercalary day once every four years was instituted to retain coincidence.
Lepidoteris fronds typically have so-called intercalary pinnules along the rachis between the primary pinnae, and are covered with the characteristic blisters mentioned above.
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.
In ancient Egypt, for civil purposes, a solar calendar of 365 days to the year was used in which there were 12 months of 30 days and 5 intercalary days.
Chinese mythology holds that disasters always strike in intercalary Augusts and Cheng was aware of the power of this superstition when he wrote his book.
The intercalary month by which the Arabs adjusted the lunar months to the solar year is abolished, severing the connection between the religious rituals and the seasons.
An intercalary month was added every three years to allow for the fact that a solar year has 365.2422 days while 12 lunar months of 29.5306 days contains 354.3672 days.
Because the blade of grass-type monocots elongate due to activity of the intercalary meristem at the blade base, the tip of the blade is more aged than the base.
The increase of internodes length in sugarcane by intercalary meristems were done.
These intercalary seconds are added at the initiative of the International Earth Rotation Service to ensure that, on average as the years go by, the sun is at the Greenwich meridian at 12:00:00 UTC to the nearest 0.9 second.
The reconstruction may take the form of a massive prosthesis, a prosthesis encased in an intercalary graft of bank bone, or a massive osteocartilaginous allograft which includes the ligaments.
Stem lengthening is produced by intercalary meristems above each node and this growth pattern produces a relatively rapid extension.
The Ethiopic and Coptic calendars have 13 months in a year, 12 of 30 days each and an intercalary month at the end of the year of 5 or 6 days depending whether the year is a leap year or not.
This particular month is only intercalary in the Arsacid model of the Macedonian calendar and here it occurs only once in every 19 year cycle.
In rosette plants, intercalary meristems are lacking.
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But to quit this episode, and to return to my intercalary year of happiness.
Now in leap-year the 29th day of February is the additional or intercalary day.
This additional month is called an intercalary month, and the year in which it occurs is called leap year.
It may be taken for granted, therefore, in the discussion to follow that no interpolation of intercalary days was actually made.
The Egyptian year was 354 days, with an intercalary month of thirty-three days added every three years.
The neural and haemal arches and spines are stout and intercalary cartilages are present.
The intercalary month was inserted between the 23rd and 24th of February.
It might be that an intercalary month should be added, and cause delay.
Also, no dendrobatid has intercalary elements in the digits.
The intercalary years of the cycle are distinguished by an asterisk.
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