From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ingraft \In*graft"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Ingrafted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ingrafting}.] [Written also engraft.]
1. To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; [figuratively], to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something.
This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. --Dryden.
A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome. --Burke.
2. To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" [syn: {graft}, {engraft}]
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