Graft Definition

grăft
grafted, grafting, grafts
verb
grafted, grafting, grafts
To insert (a shoot or bud) as a graft.
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To gain money or advantage through deceit or fraud.
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To be grafted.
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To insert a graft of (one plant) in another.
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To produce (a fruit, flower, etc.) by means of a graft.
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noun
grafts
A shoot or bud of one plant or tree inserted or to be inserted into the stem or trunk of another, where it continues to grow, becoming a permanent part; scion.
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The act or process of inserting such a bud or shoot.
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The place on a plant or tree where such a bud or shoot has been inserted.
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A tree or plant with such an insertion.
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A joining of one thing to another as if by grafting.
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Origin of Graft

  • From Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheion), from γράφειν (graphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Compare graphic, grammar.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English graften alteration of graffen probably from Old French grafier from graffe stylus, graft (from its shape) from Latin graphium stylus graffito N., Middle English grafte alteration of graffe from Old French

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Graft Sentence Examples

  • This species is frequently used as a stock on which to graft other Cacti.

  • When worked at the top of a stem formed of the stock, the growth from the graft or bud must be pruned in a similar way.

  • The scions should be taken off some weeks before they are wanted, and half-buried in the earth, since the stock at the time of grafting should in point of vegetation be somewhat in advance of the graft.

  • Treatment requires a short segment bypass graft to remove the risk of rupture.

  • This is not so good a plan as whip-grafting; it is improved by sloping the stock on one side to the size of the graft.

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