inarchingn.
/ɪnˈɑːtʃɪŋ/ 1. The action or process of grafting by approach.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > grafting by uniting parts of separate plants
inarching1629
approach1658
ablactation1665
enarching1727
approximationa1774
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iv. 543 Inarching is another manner of grafting in the stocke.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Grafting Grafting by..Enarching.
1863 R. Alcock Capital of Tycoon I. 325 The Japanese understand, and sometimes practise, the inarching of plants.
1898 L. H. Bailey Pruning-bk. 389 The union [of trees and branches] takes place more rapidly if the bark is removed from the conjoined surfaces and the exposed parts of the wounds covered with wax. This is a species of inarching.
2. transferred. = anaplasty n. rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > fixation and repair operations > [noun] > repair > by use of adjacent tissue
inarching1646
anaplasty1879
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. ix. 127 We might abate the Art of Taliacotius, and the new inarching of noses. View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis vii. 78 The Nose any way mangled..gives the greatest blemish to the Face,..which doth much advance the..new inarching of Noses.
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inˈarching
inˈarching adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > like an arch or bow > over something
overarching1720
inarching1882
1882 F. W. H. Myers Renewal of Youth 203 When all the embracing earth, the inarching blue, Seemed the soul's cage no wings might battle through.
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