root graft

American  

noun

1. Horticulture. the process of grafting a shoot or stem of one plant onto a section of root of another.

2. a plant, commonly a young one, that is the result of root grafting.

3. the natural underground growing together or joining of the roots of nearby plants.

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Etymology

Origin of root graft

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

Root′-fī′bril, one of the fine divisions of a root; Root′-form, a form assumed by an insect when feeding on roots; Root′-graft′ing, the process of grafting scions on a part of the root of some appropriate stock; Root′-hair, a delicate filament developed from a single cell.—adj.

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The whole root graft should not be more than six or seven inches long.

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There exists a 4th type of walnut graft, dating from 1880, which if done intelligently, permits the rapid multiplication of the walnut—the root graft.

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Theoretically perhaps a whole-root tree may be demonstrated to be better; practically, we cannot see that it becomes so necessarily, because we have trees planted at a time when the root graft on a piece was the general rule in propagation.

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As for the claim that a root graft on a piece-root never makes a vigorous tree, we know that is nonsense.

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