emplastration

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noun

Grafting by inoculation; budding.

OriginLatin emplastratio →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounemplastration (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableGrafting by inoculation; budding.

    Emplastration in the Hortyard, is grafting by inocelation with a scutcheon.

    1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC
  2. obsoleteuncountablemedicineThe application of a plaster or salve.

Origin

  1. Latinemplastratio“a budding”
  2. Englishemplastration

Latin emplastratio (“a budding”).

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APA

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Chicago

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