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whip graft

noun

, Horticulture.
  1. a graft prepared by cutting both the scion and the stock in a sloping direction and securing them by tying or taping.


whip graft

noun

  1. horticulture a graft made by inserting a tongue cut on the sloping base of the scion into a slit on the sloping top of the stock
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of whip graft1

First recorded in 1665–75
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Example Sentences

The cions may be placed on the tree by several methods, but only two are commonly employed,—the whip-graft and the cleft-graft.

On the small shoots of young trees, the whip-graft is often employed, but it is not used in large trees.

Root-grafting, especially of fruit-stocks, is performed almost entirely by the whip-graft.

The parts are held only by the string, which, together with the wax, is applied in the same way as upon the whip-graft.

The parts are sometimes joined by a tongue, after the manner of a whip-graft, but this is rarely necessary.

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