graft (botany)

The portion of a woody plant inserted into a slot cut in the stem or rootstock of another plant, so that the vascular tissues combine and growth continues. Successful only between closely related species, grafting is widely used in horticulture to combine desirable but weak-growing varieties with vigorous or disease-resistant ones. Sometimes the rootstock donor breaks out, producing suckers bearing their own flowers among those of the other donor.

Graft may refer to:

Grafting, where the tissues of one plant are affixed to the tissues of another Medical grafting, a surgical procedure to transplant tissue without a blood supply Skin grafting, a type of organ transplant procedure involving skin Graft (Netherlands), a village in the municipality of Graft-De Rijp Photografting In politics, graft is a form of political corruption whereby someone profits personally from the public budget In some parts of the world, for example in the United Kingdom, graft means hard work (as a noun) or to work hard (as a verb). This the more commonly understood meaning in the UK The origins of this word are still unproven, but a likely source is the act of digging, considered a low or menial type of work. In American slang of the mid-1800s, graft was used to mean work. The root word is graaf, the imperative form of Dutch word for digging Graft (1915 film)

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