Transplant

Quick meaning: Transplant is a verb meaning (transitive) To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
2. (transitive, medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
3. An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
4. Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
5. (medicine) An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
6. (medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
7. (US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• transplants
• transplanting
• transplanted

Synonyms for transplant

Depending on context, synonyms include transfer, graft, transpose, transplanting, transplantation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include graft, transfer, transpose, planting, sowing, grafting.

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