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verb Download 🔗Share To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting. Examples : "The farmer grafted a branch from a Fuji apple tree onto a rootstock, hoping to grow better apples. " agriculture biology plant science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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