graft hybrid

noun

1. a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.

graft hybrid

noun

1. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of graft hybrid¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Supposing any of these influences to have been exerted, the resulting product would deserve to be called a graft-hybrid.

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But a change of this kind cannot be considered to be of the nature of a graft-hybrid.

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Rosa devoniensis, graft-hybrid produced by, on the white Banksian rose, i. 396.

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He has also succeeded in making a true graft-hybrid between two varieties of potatoes, in which I failed.

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