graft (v.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig. • graft (v.): I. Lit.: insĕro, sēvi, sĭtum, 3: to g. a good pear on a wild one, in pirum silvaticam ins. pirum bonam, Varr. R. R. 1, 40, ad fin.: to g. a tree (a stock), arborem ins., Col. 5, 11, ad init.: to g. wild-olive stocks, oleae silvestres ins. truncos, Virg. G. 2, 302. Phr.: method of propagation by g.ing, genus seminis quod transit (transfertur) ex arbore in aliam, Varr. l. c. II. Fig.: in this sense usu. ingraft: insĕro. 3: cf. Hor. S. 1, 3, 35: v. to implant.