Horticulture .

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.

the plant resulting from such an operation; the united stock and scion.

the place where the scion is inserted.

Surgery . a portion of living tissue surgically transplanted from one part of an individual to another, or from one individual to another, for its adhesion and growth.

an act of grafting.

to insert (a graft) into a tree or other plant; insert a scion of (one plant) into another plant.

to cause (a plant) to reproduce through grafting.

Surgery . to transplant (a portion of living tissue, as of skin or bone) as a graft.

to attach as if by grafting

an absurdity grafted onto an otherwise coherent body of thought.

Nautical . to cover (a rope) with a weaving of rope yarn.

to insert scions from one plant into another.

to become grafted.

noun

bud * , hybridization , implant , jointure , scion , shoot , slip , splice , sprout , unionnotes:a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole , bribe , corruption , gain , hat * , hush money * , juice * , money , money under the table , pay , payola * , peculation , shake * , share , skimming , squeeze * , thieverynotes:a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole , fix , payola

verb

affix , implant , ingraft , insert , join , plant , propagate , unitenotes:a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole