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GRAFTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of grafting something onto something else
Synonyms:
graft; grafting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("grafting" is a kind of...):
affixation; attachment (the act of attaching or affixing something)
Derivation:
graft (place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient)
graft (cause to grow together parts from different plants)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb graft
Context examples:
Grafting is done by cutting a plant off near the root, shaping its stalk into a wedge and fitting this into a matching groove on the severed stem of another plant.
(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)
Pepper grafting could become an environmentally friendly adaptation strategy, says Angeles Calatayud, a researcher at the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias in Valencia, Spain, and co-author of the paper.
(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)
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