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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

  1. noun A request for payment, listing what is owed for goods or services.
  2. noun A proposed law presented to a legislature for debate and approval.
  3. noun A piece of paper currency.
  4. noun The beak of a bird.
  5. verb To send someone an invoice for money owed.

graft — full definition

  1. noun A piece of living tissue, skin, or plant shoot transplanted onto or into another body or plant to grow there.
  2. verb To transplant living tissue or a plant shoot onto another body or plant.
  3. noun Dishonest profit gained through abuse of power, especially in politics or business.
  4. noun Hard work, especially informal British usage for effort or labor.

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