engraft








verb (used with object)

  1. Horticulture. to insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for propagation: to engraft a peach on a plum.

verb (used without object)

  1. Surgery. (of living tissue) to become grafted.

verb (tr)

  1. to graft (a shoot, bud, etc) onto a stock
  2. to incorporate in a firm or permanent way; implantthey engrafted their principles into the document
v.

1580s, from en- (1) + graft (v.). Related: Engrafted; engrafting.

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