graft hybrid
a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
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Supposing any of these influences to have been exerted, the resulting product would deserve to be called a graft-hybrid.
But a change of this kind cannot be considered to be of the nature of a graft-hybrid.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. | Charles DarwinRosa devoniensis, graft-hybrid produced by, on the white Banksian rose, i. 396.
He has also succeeded in making a true graft-hybrid between two varieties of potatoes, in which I failed.
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British Dictionary definitions for graft hybrid
a plant produced by grafting a scion and stock from dissimilar plants such that cells of both stock and scion are mixed in the visible parts, giving an intermediate appearance in at least some parts; chimera
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