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Intercalate v. t. (past & past part. intercalated; pres. part. intercalating)

(Chron.) To insert, as a day or other portion of time, in a calendar.

To insert among others, as a verse in a stanza; specif. (Geol.), to introduce as a bed or stratum, between the layers of a regular series of rocks. "Beds of fresh-water shells... are intercalated and interstratified with the shale."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... made to alternate in cultivation with the cane. When the cane rows are as far apart as they require to be, to admit of sufficient tillage with the plough and other implements, it will also be possible to intercalate crops of rapidly growing plants; and were this done, as it easily might, in such a manner as to prevent undue exhaustion of the land, or impoverishment of the sugar crop, the returns could not fail to be materially increased. It would then probably be found that the fluctuations in prices would ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

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