1. The act of grafting something onto something else
   "The grafting of apple branches onto the rootstock produced a hybrid tree";
   - graft

1. Place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
   "They grafted skin from her thigh onto the burn site";
   - transplant
    
2. Cause to grow together parts from different plants
   "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree";
   - engraft, ingraft [archaic]
    
3. [Brit, informal] Work hard and steadily
   "He grafted away at his studies"

Derived forms: graftings

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

Encyclopedia: Grafting