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grafting

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context horticulture English) The act, art, or process of inserting grafts. 2 (context nautical English) The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc. 3 (context surgery English) The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Grafting or graftage is a horticultural technique whereby tissues from one plant are inserted into those of another so that the two sets of vascular tissues may join together. This vascular joining is called inosculation . The technique is most commonly ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grafting \Graft"ing\ n. (Hort.) The act, art, or process of inserting grafts. (Naut.) The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc. (Surg.) The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty. (Carp.) A scarfing ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of grafting something onto something else [syn: graft ]

Usage examples of grafting.

Why, when some of the students last semester requested that the administration include courses in things like forestry, basketmaking and plant grafting, they called out the C.

Great diversity in the size of two plants, one being woody and the other herbaceous, one being evergreen and the other deciduous, and adaptation to widely different climates, does not always prevent the two grafting together.

In the same manner as in grafting trees, the capacity of one species or variety to take on another, is incidental on generally unknown differences in their vegetative systems, so in crossing, the greater or less facility of one species to unite with another, is incidental on unknown differences in their reproductive systems.

They suggested carving the shinbones, the fibulas of this human product I am, shaping the bones and grafting them to build me, build the product, a new jawbone.

Deep channels run across my palms in places where no amount of grafting and collagen implants could replace dead tissue.

I don’t want to spend my life in the hothouse or the dryhouse or the coldhouse, grafting and nurturing and propagating plants that will die almost as soon as they’re sold.

I dont want to spend my life in the hothouse or the dryhouse or the coldhouse, grafting and nurturing and propagating plants that will die almost as soon as they're sold.

I don’t want to spend my life in the hothouse or the dryhouse or the coldhouse, grafting and nurturing and propagating plants that will die almost as soon as they're sold.

This variation can be exploited in a number of ways, including cross-breeding and bud grafting.

When computers came into being around the time of the Second World War, humans, quite naturally, communicated with them by simply grafting them on to the already-existing technologies for translating letters into bits and vice versa: teletypes and punch card machines.

I'm told he gave up grafting for himself and took to living off disability benefit instead.

Even with a single brain, the grafting would have been impossible, had I not been able to rely upon the almost miraculous effects of the electric fluid.

The grafting took place genomically, before I technically came into existence.

There were croquet mallets, knitting needles, pastels surfins, lino-cutting tools, kites, boomerangs, glue, boxes of cigars, home-made wood-wind instruments, cookery books, a bull-roarer, a telescope, a tin of grafting wax and a hamper marked Fortnum and Mason's on the bottom.

Now in my case the grafting did not succeed just as the first botanical graftings did not succeed because I was not sufficiently experienced and practised in it and had not yet found the right method.