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Noun: graft  grãft
  1. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
    - transplant
     
  2. The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
    - bribery, palm-greasing [informal]
     
  3. The act of grafting something onto something else
    - grafting
     
  4. [Brit] Hard work
Verb: graft  grãft
  1. Cause to grow together parts from different plants
    "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree";
    - engraft, ingraft [archaic]
     
  2. Place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
    - transplant

Sounds like: grade, grayed, greraft, gra

Derived forms: grafted, grafts, grafting

Type of: affixation, animal tissue, attachment, conjoin [formal], enter, felony, infix, insert, introduce, join

Encyclopedia: Graft, Netherlands