graftling
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editgraftling (plural graftlings)
- A small or young graft (scion)
- 1863, Justus von Liebig, The natural laws of husbandry:
- Even the parasitical plants, which draw their mineral constituents in a certain state of preparation, from other plants on which they live, as the mistletoe (Viscum album), do not comport themselves to the latter as a graftling to a tree, but absorb from the sap very different proportions of mineral constituents.
- 1995, Richard Hamilton, Optimising vineyard establishment:
- In a perfect situation, supply equals demand, and demand is satisfied with vineyards receiving all vines as well-grown, one-year-old graftlings and rootlings, whether produced in the field or in containers.