Graftling
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A small or young graft (scion)
"Even the parasitical plants, which draw their mineral constituents in a certain state of preparation, from other plants on which they live, as the mistletoe (Viscum album), do not comport themselves to the latter as a graftling to a tree, but absorb from the sap very different proportions of mineral constituents."
Example
More examples"Even the parasitical plants, which draw their mineral constituents in a certain state of preparation, from other plants on which they live, as the mistletoe (Viscum album), do not comport themselves to the latter as a graftling to a tree, but absorb from the sap very different proportions of mineral constituents."
Etymology
From graft + -ling.
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