grafts
Joins plant shoots
Grafts covers two unrelated words.
One involves attachment: a graft is tissue transplanted from one site to another, or a shoot inserted into a plant to grow there.
Surgeons perform skin grafts; gardeners graft branches onto rootstock.
The other graft means corrupt acquisition of money through political position—bribery, kickbacks, backroom deals.
The mayor's administration was riddled with graft.
Heir of prominence
- rootstockBase for grafted plants
- buddingDeveloping from an outgrowth
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
splice · cultivar · hybridization · cloning · pruning · inoculation · chimera · compatibility
Genetically matched tissue transfer
- donorOne who contributes freely
- recipientOne who receives something
- rejectionDenial of acceptance
- immunosuppressionReduced bodily defense activation
tissue · flap · dermis · healing · scarring · take · harvesting · burn treatment
Corrupt payment for influence
- kickbackIllegal payment for services
- embezzlementFraudulent taking of entrusted assets
- payoffCulminating benefit received
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
nepotism · cronyism · palm-greasing · venality · extortion · fraud · skimming · misappropriation
scion
Heir of prominence
- rootstockBase for grafted plants
- buddingDeveloping from an outgrowth
- propagationAct of spreading widely
cutting · splice · cultivar · hybridization · cloning · pruning · inoculation · chimera · compatibility · cambium
isograft
Genetically matched tissue transfer
immunosuppression · tissue · flap · dermis · healing · scarring · take · harvesting · burn treatment · reconstructive
bribery
Corrupt payment for influence
- kickbackIllegal payment for services
- embezzlementFraudulent taking of entrusted assets
- payoffCulminating benefit received
patronage · nepotism · cronyism · palm-greasing · venality · extortion · fraud · skimming · misappropriation · political corruption
orchard
Fruit tree plantation
- fruit treeTree producing edible produce
- appleCrisp tree fruit
- citrusAcidic fruits with segments
vine · vineyard · nursery · dwarf · espalier · yield · variety · rootbound · vigorous · hardy
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- hard workSustained strenuous effort
- effortApplied energy toward goals
- exertionVigorous physical effort
industriousness · diligence · grind · slog · drudgery · sweat · elbow grease
- surgical suppliesscalpels, scalpel, forceps, clamps, retractors
- propagulesseeds, seed, spores, spore, bulbs
- biologicsbiologics, biologicals, biopharmaceuticals, monoclonal antibodies, monoclonal antibody
- cartilage repairmicrofracture, autografts, allografts, scaffolds
- germplasmgermplasm, seed banks, gene pools, genetic material, seeds
- surgical instrumentsscalpel, forceps, retractor, clamp, clamps
graftsintegrity
Moral soundness and consistency
ethical conduct · honesty · incorruptibility · probity · transparency
- 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, grafting, grafted, xenograft, allograft, engraft, autograft, engrafted, skin graft