Grafting
/GRAF-ting/✂️ Propagation●● Intermediate
A horticultural technique in which tissue from one plant (the scion) is joined to the rootstock of another so they unite and grow as a single plant. Used to combine desirable fruiting or flowering characteristics with vigorous or disease-resistant root systems.
Etymology
From Greek graphion, meaning "stylus, writing implement."
Example
“Most fruit trees in orchards are produced by grafting a productive scion onto a dwarfing rootstock.”