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▸ noun: (countable) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
▸ noun: (surgery, countable) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
▸ verb: (transitive) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
▸ verb: (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
▸ verb: (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
▸ verb: (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
▸ verb: (chemistry) To form a graft polymer
▸ noun: (obsolete) A ditch, a canal.
▸ noun: The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
▸ noun: A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Corruption in official life.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
▸ noun: (uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.
▸ noun: (countable) A con job.
▸ noun: (countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).
▸ noun: (uncountable, US, politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
▸ noun: (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.
▸ noun: (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.
▸ verb: (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.
▸ verb: To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
▸ noun: A surname.
Similar:
transplant,
engraft,
ingraft,
bribery,
stock,
scion,
grain,
budding,
emplastration,
fruitwood,
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free,
thickness,
autogenous,
composite,
saphenous,
prosthetic,
fat,
corneal,
aortic,
cancellous,
vascular
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