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graft hybrid

noun

  1. a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.


graft hybrid

noun

  1. a plant produced by grafting a scion and stock from dissimilar plants such that cells of both stock and scion are mixed in the visible parts, giving an intermediate appearance in at least some parts; chimera
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of graft hybrid1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences

Supposing any of these influences to have been exerted, the resulting product would deserve to be called a graft-hybrid.

But a change of this kind cannot be considered to be of the nature of a graft-hybrid.

Rosa devoniensis, graft-hybrid produced by, on the white Banksian rose, i. 396.

He has also succeeded in making a true graft-hybrid between two varieties of potatoes, in which I failed.

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