graft
noun
1. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
Similar word(s): transplant
Definition categories: body
2. the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
Similar word(s): bribery
Definition categories: act, felony
3. the act of grafting something onto something else
Similar word(s): grafting
Definition categories: act, affixation, attachment
verb
1. cause to grow together parts from different plants
- graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree
Similar word(s): engraft, ingraft
Definition categories: contact, conjoin, join
2. place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
Similar word(s): transplant
Definition categories: contact, enter, infix, insert, introduce
Sentences with graft as a verb:
- 1717 Eloisa to Abelard. And graft my love immortal on thy fame! — Alexander Pope