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Definition of Ingraft
1. Verb. Cause to grow together parts from different plants. "Graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"
Definition of Ingraft
1. v. t. 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.
Definition of Ingraft
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of engraft) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ingraft
1. to engraft [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: engraft
Medical Definition of Ingraft
1. 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. Origin: Ingrafted; Ingrafting Alternative forms: engraft. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingraft
Literary usage of Ingraft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... the cortex doth but ingraft the venom to shoot out again more perniciously.
And so, in his lordship's case, he had a seed of a malignant fever in him, ..."
2. The Tyro's Greek and English Lexicon: Or a Compendium in English of the ...by John Jones, Christian Tobias Damm, Friedrich Wilhelm Struz, Johann Friedrich Schleusner, Johann Schweighäuser by John Jones, Christian Tobias Damm, Friedrich Wilhelm Struz, Johann Friedrich Schleusner, Johann Schweighäuser (1825)
"... throw prison—commit seed to the ground-]: sow, ingraft—plunge in danger, rush
thrust in—rush upon, attack, Herod. ) —throw before at an object ..."
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