transplant

UK /tɹɑːnzˈplɑːnt/ US /tɹɑːnzˈplɑːnt/
noun 5verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.

Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.

A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky.

2

To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.

Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits.

3

To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.

noun

1

An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.

2

Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.

3

An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.

4

A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.

5

Someone who is not native to their area of residence.

The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.

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