Meaning

noun (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

noun the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

noun the act of grafting something onto something else

originFrom Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheíon), from γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Doublet of graphium. Compare graphic, grammar.

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