Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. · To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting. · To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union. · To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. · A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. · A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
From Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheíon), from γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Doublet of graphium. Compare graphic, grammar.
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