grafting

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Grafting involves taking a shoot from a vulnerable plant and placing it on to the root of one that is disease-resistant.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2022

Grafting, layering, and micropropagation are some methods used for artificial asexual reproduction.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Grafting the iPhone's clever, customizable interface onto other products sounds like a universal win.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2011

Grafting ballet on to myriad Latin disciplines – capoeira, rhumba, tango – it was a sizzling concoction.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2010

Grafting or budding upon such stocks is also resorted to very often, when it is desirable at once to furnish large, or salable trees of new varieties.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.