root graft

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of root graft¹

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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