Graft

[grɑːft] or [ɡræft]

解释:

(noun.) the act of grafting something onto something else.

(noun.) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient.

(verb.) cause to grow together parts from different plants; 'graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree'.

编辑:帕梅拉--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

(n.) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

(n.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

(n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.

(n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

(n.) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

(n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

(v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

欧文校对

同义词及近义词：

n. Shoot (inserted in another tree), scion, sprout.

v. a. Ingraft.

安娜校对

解释:

v.t. to make an incision in a tree or plant and insert in it a small branch of another so as to make a union of the two: to insert in something anything not belonging to it: to incorporate one thing with another: to transplant as a piece of tissue from one part to another.—v.i. to insert cuttings into a tree.—n. a small branch used in grafting.—ns. Graft′er; Graft′ing.

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