transplant

verb

1. 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. 2

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

   But after half a year the Russian Government prohibited its circulation, and as a consequence the paper ceased to appear. He then went to Tschernowitz and started a Folksblatt. Upon the advice of a friend he transplanted his paper to Jassy, Roumania.

   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. 3

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

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.

3. 3

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

4. 4

   A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.

5. 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.

Forms

plural

transplants

past tense

transplanted

past participle

transplanted

present participle

transplanting

third person singular

transplants