graft
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
Types & categories
- animal tissue hypernym
- autoplasty hyponym
- homograft hyponym
- heterograft hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
cause to grow together parts from different plants
graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree
Types & categories
- conjoin hypernym
Related & opposite
- grafting derivation
Sense 3 noun
the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
Types & categories
- felony hypernym
- barratry hyponym
- commercial bribery hyponym
Related & opposite
- bribe derivation
Sense 4 verb
place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
Types & categories
- insert hypernym
Related & opposite
- grafting derivation
- transplantation derivation
- transplant derivation
- move entails
Sense 5 noun
the act of grafting something onto something else
Types & categories
- affixation hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | graft |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | surgery |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | animal tissue |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | autoplasty |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | homograft |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | heterograft |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | grafting |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | conjoin |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | bribe |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | felony |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | barratry |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | commercial bribery |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | grafting |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | transplantation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | transplant |
| 4 | entails | Related & opposite | move |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | insert |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | graft |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | graft |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | affixation |