Both Uses of
graft
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- There he crept beneath two shoots of olive that grew from a single stock—the one an ungrafted sucker, while the other had been grafted.†
Book 5 *ungrafted = not artificially joinedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in ungrafted means not and reverses the meaning of grafted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- There he crept beneath two shoots of olive that grew from a single stock—the one an ungrafted sucker, while the other had been grafted.†
Book 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(graft as in: skin graft) to artificially join two things; or the smaller of the items joined; or the location of the joiningCommon examples are the grafting of a plant shoot to another plant stem or the grafting of skin tissue to replace skin lost due to fire or other accident. This sense of graft can also be used metaphorically as in "graft the provision onto the legislative bill."
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(2)
(graft as in: graft and corruption) corruption in which one uses their position to gain personal advantage -- especially political corruption