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verb
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.
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.
To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
noun
An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
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.