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graft

Dictionary definition · graft

noun

  1. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
  2. the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
  3. the act of grafting something onto something else

verb

  1. cause to grow together parts from different plants"graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"
  2. place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).