graft

noun [C] (TISSUE)

/ɡræft/ biology

Definition

› a piece of healthy skin or bone cut usually from a person’s own body and used to repair a damaged part on that person › A graft is also a piece cut from a living plant and fixed to another plant so that it grows there. graft

/ɡræft/ verb [T]

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