Graft
[grɑːft] or [ɡræft]
Definition
(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'.
Checker: Pamela--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checked by Irving
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Shoot (inserted in another tree), scion, sprout.
v. a. Ingraft.
Inputed by Anna
Definition
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.
Typist: Stephanie
Examples
- If he could but graft the girl on to some tree of utterance before he died, he would have fulfilled his responsibility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They excelled in horticulture, knowing how to graft and how to produce new varieties of fruit and flowers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is an accretion of power around a center of influence, cemented by patronage, graft, favors, friendship, loyalties, habits,--a human grouping, a natural pyramid. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Is it not possible that graft is the cracking and bursting of the receptacles in which we have tried to constrain the business of this country? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This body has three heads; one in the middle and two others grafted at the base of the neck of the first. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- No explanation can be given of these facts, any more than why certain trees cannot be grafted on others. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- On the other hand, certain species of Sorbus, when grafted on other species, yielded twice as much fruit as when on their own roots. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Although many distinct genera within the same family have been grafted together, in other cases species of the same genus will not take on each other. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The pear can be grafted far more readily on the quince, which is ranked as a distinct genus, than on the apple, which is a member of the same genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn stops for an instant and repeats with some little emphasis grafted upon his usual monotony, Real flesh and blood, Miss Dedlock. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The common gooseberry, for instance, cannot be grafted on the currant, whereas the currant will take, though with difficulty, on the gooseberry. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- These bud variations, as they may be named, can be propagated by grafts, offsets, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The amazingly large number of different varieties which we have today have all been brought into existence through the discovery of the process of grafting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are a half a dozen or more different methods of grafting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As in reciprocal crosses, the facility of effecting an union is often very far from equal, so it sometimes is in grafting. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Noble, for instance, informs me that he raises stocks for grafting from a hybrid between Rhod. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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