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INGRAFT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ingraft mean?
• INGRAFT (verb)
The verb INGRAFT has 1 sense:
1. cause to grow together parts from different plants
Familiarity information: INGRAFT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they ingraft ... he / she / it ingrafts
Past simple: ingrafted
Past participle: ingrafted
-ing form: ingrafting
... he / she / it ingrafts Past simple: ingrafted
Past participle: ingrafted
-ing form: ingrafting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to grow together parts from different plants
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
Context example:
graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree
Hypernyms (to "ingraft" is one way to...):
conjoin; join (make contact or come together)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
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