Graftage

/ˈɡræf.tɪdʒ/ noun

Definition

In horticulture, the process or technique of grafting plants; the result of grafting one plant onto another.

Etymology

From 'graft' (the horticultural practice of joining plant parts) with the suffix '-age' indicating a process or collection. The horticultural sense comes from Old Norse 'grapt,' meaning to dig or carve.

Kelly Says

Graftage is how we get fruit trees—a peach is often the 'graft' attached to a hardier plum root—and this centuries-old technique inspired our metaphorical use of 'graft' for corruption, since it originally meant implanting something foreign into something else.

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