engraft

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to insert a shoot into another plant, or to fix firmly into something

   The gardener engrafted a hardy stem onto the older rootstock.

From en- ('in') + graft (from Old French greffe, from Latin graphium 'stylus', from Ancient Greek gráphein 'to write'), so named because a scion resembled a pointed stylus.

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