cleftgraft

English

Etymology

cleft +‎ graft

Verb

cleftgraft (third-person singular simple present cleftgrafts, present participle cleftgrafting, simple past and past participle cleftgrafted)

1. To engraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cleftgraft”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)