ingraft : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ingraft	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ingraft
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ingraft v cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" Synonym(s): graft, engraft, ingraft
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ingraft \Ingraft"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ingrafted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ingrafting}.] [Written also engraft.] 1. To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft* a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. --Dryden. A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome. --Burke. 2. To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.