台木

だいぎ

Also written 砧木

Meanings

1. Noun stock (in grafting)
2. wood used as a platform (or base, etc.); block (i.e. chopping block); (gun) stock; unworked block of wood

Kanji

• 台 platform. Read as ダイ.
• 木 tree. Read as き.

Example sentences

• 果樹栽培者がリンゴの接ぎ穂を台木に接ぎ木しました。
  The orchardist grafted an apple bud onto the rootstock.

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