ingraft Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cause to grow together parts from different plants
    engraft; graft.
    • graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree

WordNet

In*graft" transitive verb
Etymology
Written also engraft.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Ingrafted; present participle & verbal noun Ingrafting
Definitions
  1. To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something.
    This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. Dryden.
    A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome. Burke.
  2. To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.

Webster 1913