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- Dictionarygraft/ɡrɑːft/
noun
- 1. a shoot or twig inserted into a slit on the trunk or stem of a living plant, from which it receives sap. Similar
- 2. a piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically. Similar
verb
- 1. insert (a shoot or twig) as a graft: "it was common to graft different varieties on to a single tree trunk"
- 2. transplant (living tissue) as a graft: "they can graft a new hand on to the nerve ends" Similar
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a piece of healthy skin or bone cut from one part of a person's body and used to repair another damaged part, or a piece cut from one living plant and attached to another plant so that it grows there: skin graft He has had a skin graft on his badly burned arm. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Medical treatment: surgery. ablate.
grafted; grafting; grafts. transitive verb. 1. a. : to cause (a scion) to unite with a stock. also : to unite (plants or scion and stock) to form a graft. b. : to propagate (see propagate sense transitive 1) (a plant) by grafting. 2.
Material, especially living tissue or an organ, surgically attached to or inserted into a bodily part to replace a damaged part or compensate for a defect. b. The procedure of implanting or transplanting such material. c. The configuration or condition resulting from such a procedure.
Graft definition: a bud, shoot, or scion of a plant inserted in a groove, slit, or the like in a stem or stock of another plant in which it continues to grow.. See examples of GRAFT used in a sentence.
Graft can mean bribery or corruption. It's also a way of transplanting skin or bones in medicine, as in a skin graft.
A graft is a piece of healthy skin or bone, or a healthy organ, which is attached to a damaged part of your body by a medical operation in order to replace it.
noun. /ɡrɑːft/ /ɡræft/ [countable] a piece cut from a living plant and fixed in a cut made in another plant, so that it grows there; the process or result of doing this. A healthy shoot should form a strong graft. Topics Plants and trees c2. Want to learn more?
