graft

graft is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
2. noun. A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
3. noun. A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
6. noun. To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
7. noun. To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
8. intransitive verb. To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
9. noun. the act of grafting something onto something else

   Synonyms: grafting

10. noun. the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

    Synonyms: bribery

11. noun. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

    Synonyms: transplant

12. verb. place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

    Synonyms: transplant

13. verb. cause to grow together parts from different plants

    "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"

    Synonyms: engraft, ingraft

Synonyms

grafting, bribery, transplant, engraft, ingraft

Common word forms

grafts, grafted, grafter, grafting

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