cleftgraft

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verb

To engraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.

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Meanings

verbcleftgraft (third-person singular simple present cleftgrafts, present participle cleftgrafting, simple past and past participle cleftgrafted)

present singular third person cleftgrafts · participle present cleftgrafting · participle past cleftgrafted · past 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: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC, book XIV, page 520
nouncleftgraft (plural cleftgrafts)

plural cleftgrafts

  1. A graft of this kind.

Origin

From cleft + graft.

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APA

cleftgraft. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cleftgraft

MLA

“cleftgraft.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cleftgraft. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cleftgraft,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cleftgraft.

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