grafted
Joined to another
Grafted is the past tense of graft, which means to join a shoot or bud from one plant onto another so they grow as one: She grafted apple branches onto the rootstock.
In medicine, grafted describes tissue transplanted from one site to another: The surgeon grafted skin from his thigh onto the burn.
Figuratively, something grafted onto an existing structure has been attached or added: New traditions were grafted onto old customs.
Heir of prominence
- rootstockBase for grafted plants
- buddingDeveloping from an outgrowth
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- cultivarBred plant variety
pruning · orchard · nursery · transplanting · arboriculture · viticulture · floriculture · espalier
Unrealistic fantasy or hybrid
- compositeMade of distinct parts
- crossbreedMixed-lineage organism
- hybridizationMixing distinct genetic lines
- transgenicHaving inserted foreign genes
interspecies · mosaic · fusion · amalgam · synthesis · blend · cross-pollination · interbreed
Bound by interweaving
- fusedJoined by melting together
- attachedJoined to another thing
- bondedFastened or emotionally connected
- unitedJoined as one
connected · affixed · merged · conjoined · fastened · secured · adhered · welded
Move tissue between bodies
- isograftGenetically matched tissue transfer
- donorOne who contributes freely
- recipientOne who receives something
- anastomosisJoining of tubular structures
suture · vascular · tissue · implant · reconstructive · orthopedic · healing · rejection
scion
Heir of prominence
- rootstockBase for grafted plants
- buddingDeveloping from an outgrowth
- propagationAct of spreading widely
cultivar · pruning · orchard · nursery · transplanting · arboriculture · viticulture · floriculture · espalier · stock
chimera
Unrealistic fantasy or hybrid
- compositeMade of distinct parts
- crossbreedMixed-lineage organism
- hybridizationMixing distinct genetic lines
transgenic · interspecies · mosaic · fusion · amalgam · synthesis · blend · cross-pollination · interbreed · splice
spliced
Bound by interweaving
- fusedJoined by melting together
- attachedJoined to another thing
- bondedFastened or emotionally connected
united · connected · affixed · merged · conjoined · fastened · secured · adhered · welded · interfaced
transplant
Move tissue between bodies
- isograftGenetically matched tissue transfer
- donorOne who contributes freely
- recipientOne who receives something
anastomosis · suture · vascular · tissue · implant · reconstructive · orthopedic · healing · rejection · integration
- farm adjectivesagrarian, arable, cultivated, fallow, fertile
- cultivarscultivar, Honeycrisp, Fuji apple, Gala apple, Granny Smith
- alteredmodified, changed, altered, edited, revised
- food qualitiesripe, unripe, overripe, fresh, spoiled
- stuckjammed, clogged, trapped, stuck in mud, snowed in
- plant statesblooming, wilting, budding, withering, dying
graftedungrafted
Not joined to rootstock
seedling · native · natural · unmodified · from seed
- skin graftsSurgical wound covering procedure
- skin graftingTransplanting tissue to wounds
- bone graftTransplanted skeletal tissue
- bone graftingTransplanting skeletal tissue surgically
- graft rejectionImmune destruction of transplant
- tissue graftSurgically transferred organic material
graft, grafts, grafting, grafter, grafters, xenograft, allograft, engraft, autograft