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Noun
That includes Parkinson’s disease, where preclinical and clinical studies have evaluated the use of nerve, or neural, grafts.—New Atlas, 10 Apr. 2025 There are, however, webs at the distal end of the graft between all fingers and thumb which should be dealt with as soon as possible.—Geoff Dyer, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
Some rosebushes are grafted, meaning that a plant of one variety has been joined to the roots of another type.—Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025 This one is both meaner-spirited and clumsier, as Brooker grafts his prank call coming from inside the house onto a denunciation of one of the planet’s profoundest manmade evils: the health-care industry.—Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 10 Apr. 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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