English to English noun
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(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient | | source: wordnet30
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the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | | source: wordnet30
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the act of grafting something onto something else | | source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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Acquisition of money, position, etc., by dishonest or unjust means, as by actual theft or by taking advantage of a public office or any position of trust or employment to obtain fees, perquisites, profits on contracts, legislation, pay for work not done or service not performed, etc.; illegal or unfair practice for profit or personal advantage; also, anything thus gained. | | source: webster1913 verb
6 |
cause to grow together parts from different plants | | Example: graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree
source: wordnet30
7 |
place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | | source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
9 |
To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting. | | source: webster1913
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