Graft

Quick meaning: Graft is a noun meaning (horticulture) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
2. (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
3. (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
4. (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
5. (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
6. (horticulture) 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.
7. (transitive) 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.

Example Sentences

And graft my love immortal on thy fame!

We had to put in a lot of hard graft to get the job done.

Of course, this was a music cruise, a floating rock festival grafted onto a passenger ship, and a quietly thriving corner of the music and cruise industries.

[…] in the first operation, we dug through the peat, the hard sand, and gravel, and one spade's graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand, the whole length of this drain,[…]

Word Forms

• grafts
• graff
• grafting
• grafted

Synonyms for graft

Depending on context, synonyms include affix, attach, put together, unite, imp, engraft.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include engraft, transplant, ingraft, bribery, organ, forgery.

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