graft (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. surcŭlus (a shoot or twig for grafting)2. insītum3. insĭtio (prop. the act of grafting) • graft (subs.): 1. surcŭlus (a shoot or twig for grafting): the g. must be taken from the middle of the tree, s. ex arbore media debet assumi, Pall. 4, 4, med.: Varr. R. R. 1, 40, ad fin.: Col.: but surculus may be used for any kind of cutting, cf. Varr. l. c.: Cic. 2. insītum: Col. 5, 11, med. (in pl.). 3. insĭtio (prop. the act of grafting): Pall. 5, 2. (Clava or clavola and talea denote different kinds of sets or layers.)
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.
GRAFT Copy link • GRAFT 1. s. surculus. 2. v. arborem inserere; also, inserere only, or surculum arbori inserere: to graft a pear (on the stock of a wild pear), pirum bonam in pirum silvaticam inserere: ☞ arborem inoculare or arbori oculum inserere = to bud.