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Etymology

From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- +‎ plant.

Pronunciation

verb and noun pronunciations, US and RP, rhymes
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Verb

transplant (third-person singular simple present transplants, present participle transplanting, simple past and past participle transplanted)

  1. (transitive) To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
    • 1996, Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 141:
      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. (transitive) To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
    • 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 460:
      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. (transitive, medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.

Translations

Noun

transplant (plural transplants)

  1. An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
  2. Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
  4. (medicine) An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
    Hyponyms: autotransplant, allotransplant, isotransplant, xenotransplant
  6. (medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
    Hyponyms: autograft, allograft, isograft, xenograft
  7. (US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
    • 2012 October 29, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker:
      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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French

Noun

transplant m (plural transplants)

  1. transplant (healthy organ that is transplanted)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French transplant.

Noun

transplant n (plural transplanturi)

  1. transplant

Declension

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