enter

An old and regional word for grafting a tree (inserting a shoot of one tree into another) — essentially a synonym of the far more common greffer, which has replaced it in standard modern French outside of some provinces and specialized arboriculture texts.

• Le pépiniériste a enté un plant de poirier sur un cognassier. — The nursery grower grafted a pear shoot onto a quince stock.
• Dans certaines régions, on dit encore enter plutôt que greffer. — In some regions, people still say "enter" rather than "greffer."
• Cet arbre fruitier a été enté il y a une dizaine d'années. — This fruit tree was grafted about ten years ago.

Learners are far more likely to actually need greffer, the standard modern verb for grafting — enter survives mainly as a regional or historical variant, not the word you'd reach for by default.

Often confused with greffer.