Definitions for grafting

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grafting graft·ing

Spelling: [graf-ting, grahf-]

IPA: /ˈgræf tɪŋ, ˈgrɑf-/

Grafting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in grafting (afgginrt).

Definitions for grafting

noun

1. graft1 (def 2).
2. Horticulture. a bud, shoot, or scion of a plant inserted in a groove, slit, or the like in a stem or stock of another plant in which it continues to grow. the plant resulting from such an operation; the united stock and scion. the place where the scion is inserted.
3. Surgery. a portion of living tissue surgically transplanted from one part of an individual to another, or from one individual to another, for its adhesion and growth.
4. an act of grafting.
5. the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
6. a particular instance, method, or means of thus acquiring gain or advantage.
7. the gain or advantage acquired.
8. British Slang. work; labor.

verb (used with object)

1. to insert (a graft) into a tree or other plant; insert a scion of (one plant) into another plant.
2. to cause (a plant) to reproduce through grafting.
3. Surgery. to transplant (a portion of living tissue, as of skin or bone) as a graft.
4. to attach as if by grafting:
5. Nautical. to cover (a rope) with a weaving of rope yarn.
6. to obtain by graft.

verb (used without object)

1. to insert scions from one plant into another.
2. to become grafted.
3. to practice graft.

Origin of grafting

First recorded in 1475-85; graft¹ + -ing¹

Examples for grafting

State laws for transplanting, grafting, spraying, and protecting trees.

The several operations in grafting are shown in Figs. 8, 9, 10 and 11.

This method of grafting is available to those who have old vineyards.

Such buds can be propagated by grafting, &c., and sometimes by seed.

There are two kinds of politics—the honest kind and the grafting kind.

In any case the grafting should not be done while the soil is wet.

In grafting or budding the scion is inserted upon the stock.

grafting an Apple So That It Stays an Apple If you plant an apple seed, its offspring will produce entirely random results.

grafting may continue as long as the cuttings can be kept dormant.

Understand what is meant by pruning, grafting, and manuring.