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graftlings

graftlings is the plural of graftling.

Meaning of graftling

Noun

graftling (plural graftlings)

  1. A small or young graft (scion)
    • Even the parasitical plants, which draw their mineral constituents in a certain state of preparation, from other plants on which they live, as the mistletoe (Viscum album), do not comport themselves to the latter as a graftling to a tree, but absorb from the sap very different proportions of...1863, Justus von Liebig, The natural laws of husbandry

Questions about graftlings

What is graftlings the plural of?
Graftlings is the plural of graftling.

Words near graftlings in the dictionary

  1. grafting wax
  2. grafting waxes
  3. graftings
  4. graftless
  5. graftling
  6. graftlings
  7. Grafton
  8. Grafton County
  9. Grafton Regis
  10. Grafton Underwood
  11. graftonite

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