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GRAFTING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The act of grafting something onto something else

Synonyms:

graft; grafting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("grafting" is a kind of...):

affixation; attachment (the act of attaching or affixing something)

Derivation:

graft (place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient)

graft (cause to grow together parts from different plants)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb graft

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 Context examples: 

Grafting is done by cutting a plant off near the root, shaping its stalk into a wedge and fitting this into a matching groove on the severed stem of another plant.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

Pepper grafting could become an environmentally friendly adaptation strategy, says Angeles Calatayud, a researcher at the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias in Valencia, Spain, and co-author of the paper.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)