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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In horticulture, the act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another without cutting it from the parent stock. Also called inarching and grafting by approach.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That approaches or approach.
  • adverb Nearly.
  • verb Present participle of approach.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the event of one object coming closer to another
  • noun the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
  • noun the act of drawing spatially closer to something
  • adjective of the relatively near future

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  • Horticulture: inarching, a method of grafting.

    March 29, 2011

  • Oh, okay. I've been meaning to make a grafting list anyway.

    March 29, 2011