graft

1. (noun) the act of grafting something onto something else
Synonyms: grafting
Related Words: attachment

2. (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"
Synonyms: engraft, ingraft
Related Words: conjoin, join

3. (noun) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
Synonyms: transplant
Related Words: allograft, animal tissue, autograft, heterograft, homograft, xenograft

4. (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
Synonyms: bribery
Related Words: commercial bribery, felony

5. (verb) in surgery
Synonyms: transplant
Related Words: enter, infix, insert, introduce



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