greffe — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bill noun A request for payment, listing what is owed for goods or services.
- graft noun A piece of living tissue, skin, or plant shoot transplanted onto or into another body or plant to grow there.
- transplant verb To dig up a plant and replant it somewhere else.
Senses
greffe is used for these senses in English:
- autoplasty (medicine, surgery, dated) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds. In present-day contexts likelier to be called autotransplantation or autografting.
- bill (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
- graft (horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- organ transplant (medicine) A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient.
- transplant (medicine) An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
bill — full definition
- noun A request for payment, listing what is owed for goods or services.
- noun A proposed law presented to a legislature for debate and approval.
- noun A piece of paper currency.
- noun The beak of a bird.
- verb To send someone an invoice for money owed.
graft — full definition
- noun A piece of living tissue, skin, or plant shoot transplanted onto or into another body or plant to grow there.
- verb To transplant living tissue or a plant shoot onto another body or plant.
- noun Dishonest profit gained through abuse of power, especially in politics or business.
- noun Hard work, especially informal British usage for effort or labor.