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cleftgraft

cleftgraft verb: to engraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.

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.
    • Filberts may be cleft-grafted on the common Nut and Serviſes on their own kind, or propagated by Suckers, Layers or Seeds.1708, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Of the Ways and Methods used for the raising of Fruit Trees”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […]...

Noun

cleftgraft (plural cleftgrafts)

  1. A graft of this kind.

Forms of cleftgraft

Verb
third-person singular presentcleftgrafts
present participlecleftgrafting
past participlecleftgrafted
pastcleftgrafted
Noun
pluralcleftgrafts

Origin of cleftgraft

From cleft + graft.

Questions about cleftgraft

What does cleftgraft mean?
Cleftgraft means to engraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
What part of speech is cleftgraft?
Cleftgraft can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of cleftgraft?
The past tense of cleftgraft is cleftgrafted.

Words near cleftgraft in the dictionary

  1. cleft sentence
  2. cleft sentences
  3. cleft stick
  4. cleft sticks
  5. clefted
  6. cleftgraft
  7. cleftgrafted
  8. cleftgrafting
  9. cleftgrafts
  10. clefting
  11. cleftings

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