to graft

Examples

• All

• New ones must be grafted onto the existing limbs.

  The Bride (1985)

• However, as shipping fruit over long distances became possible, growers started to graft the apples and raise them for eating.

  Academic text (2005)

• The current practice is to graft skin from other locations on the human body.

  Academic text (2012)

• Oh no, I think they grafted the Rose to a lemon tree.

• "You haven't grafted a cutting in a long time, Mattie," Rosalind seconded him.

  Fiction book (2000)

• To create a new apple variety, you need to graft a bud from the desired apple tree onto a compatible rootstock.

• Farmers often graft stronger plants onto weaker ones to improve their yield and resilience.

• After taking a cutting from the peach tree, he grafted it onto a plum tree to combine the best traits of both.

Synonyms

I

to ingraft

vsto graft

• Specialized

1 9.9

Join a branch of one plant to another so they grow together

focuses on joining shoots, buds, or pieces rather than general plant parts

I

to inoculate

vsto graft

• Specialized

1 8.7

To put a bud from one plant onto another to grow a new plant

covers joining shoots, buds, or other pieces beyond only bud insertion

E

to engraft

vsto graft

• Specialized

9.0

To join a part of one plant, like a stem or branch, to another so they grow together

emphasises joining specific shoots, buds, or pieces rather than insertion

I

to inarch

vsto graft

• Specialized

9.9

To join living stems or roots of two plants by bending them so they grow together

uses added shoots, buds, or pieces instead of bending existing stems or roots

Compounds

S

skin graft

• Specialized

7 3.5

A piece of healthy skin taken from one body part and placed on damaged skin to help it heal

C

coronary artery bypass graft

• Specialized

1 4.6

A surgery that uses a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked heart artery and restore blood flow

C

corneal graft

• Specialized

5.8

An operation that replaces a damaged clear layer at the front of the eye with healthy donor tissue

Surface Forms

Etymology