transplant
verb (used with object)
to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
has transplanted
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present perfectof transplant (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Instead, director Simon Stone has transplanted her to a contemporary American town whose once-prosperous residents are suffering the effects of economic decline and where the pharmacy and pawnshop are among the only thriving businesses.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
Now, DiPietro has transplanted Fielding's Tom Jones into swinging 1960s London for a stage musical soundtracked by the swinging hits of Sir Tom Jones.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2021
Kentridge has transplanted “Wozzeck” from the early-nineteenth-century setting of Berg’s libretto to the period of the First World War.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
Basbaum has transplanted GABA-producing neurons from mouse embryos to successfully treat a mouse model of neuropathic pain7.
From Nature ● Sep. 10, 2019
If a cultivator has transplanted his tobacco or other valuable plant, he collects old cracked earthen cooking-pots, and places a spot of limestone whiting on the well-blackened bottom of each.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 by William Chambers
