Surgical suturing or joining of plant shoots; the grafting or binding together of plant stems.
From 'cion' (plant shoot) + Greek 'raphia' or 'rhaphē' (suturing, stitching). Applies surgical terminology to horticultural grafting procedures.
This obscure term reveals how gardeners and surgeons spoke a shared Latin language—just as a surgeon stitches wound edges, a gardener 'stitches' plant shoots together through grafting, and this word captures both in one term.
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