| 单词 | graftage |
| 释义 | graftage in British English (ˈɡrɑːftɪdʒ) noun the art of grafting graftage in American English (ˈgræftɪdʒ) noun 1. the act or science of grafting 2. the state of being grafted graftage in American English (ˈɡræftɪdʒ, ˈɡrɑːf-) noun the art or practice of inserting a part of one plant into another plant in such a way that the two will unite and continue their growth Word origin [1890–95; graft1 + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cholesterol, historicism, phoneme, plein-air, pogey-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage) |
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