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Noun
Pre-arrival photo consults help estimate graft counts, map a design, and explain how prices range with case complexity.—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025 Olsen’s dental team also had to rebuild her jawbone with cadaver bone grafts, wire her jaw shut, remove broken teeth, and stabilize ones that became loose.—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
Harvest apples at Little River Orchard, a relatively new spot that’s run by a food-science expert who planted grafted trees in 2016 and started seeing the fruits of his labor in 2021.—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025 Despite having a relatively straightforward main plot, the first Hades excelled at grafting deep backstories and layered personalities to each of its many characters that fleshed out Greek mythology.—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for graft
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1) and Verb (1)
Middle English graffe, grafte, from Anglo-French greffe, graife stylus, graph, from Medieval Latin graphium, from Latin, stylus, from Greek grapheion, from graphein to write — more at carve
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