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Word entry · 5 letters

graft

Best crossword clue

"Transplanted tissue"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ɡɹɑːft/Part of speech noun, verbSorted afgrtStarts with GEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of grafting something onto something else

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • And graft my love immortal on thy fame!
  • Of course, this was a music cruise, a floating rock festival grafted onto a passenger ship, and a quietly thriving corner of the music and cruise industries.
  • […] in the first operation, we dug through the peat, the hard sand, and gravel, and one spade's graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand, the whole length of this drain,[…]

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