Ingraft (Verb)
Meaning
Cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- Horticulturists can ingraft a stem cutting from one plant onto the root system of another to combine their desirable traits.
- This process involves carefully in grafting a section of a stem with buds onto the stump of another plant.
- In grafting, plant tissues from two different plants are joined to produce new life forms of living structures that were not previously there, using a procedure to ingraft them.
- To produce a more robust root system, growers can ingraft parts of one plant onto the stump of another plant that is more resistant to disease.
- To propagate a new variety of fruit tree, gardeners may ingraft a cutting from the desired tree onto the root system of a hardier, established tree.