transplant

[ verb trans-plant, -plahnt; noun trans-plant, -plahnt ]

verb (used with object)

1. to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
2. Surgery. to transfer (an organ, tissue, etc.) from one part of the body to another or from one person or animal to another.
3. to move from one place to another.
4. to bring (a family, colony, etc.) from one country, region, etc., to another for settlement; relocate.

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo or accept transplanting:

   to transplant easily.

noun

1. the act or process of transplanting.
2. a plant, organ, person, etc., that has been transplanted.

transplant

verb

1. tr to remove or transfer (esp a plant) from one place to another
2. intr to be capable of being transplanted
3. surgery to transfer (an organ or tissue) from one part of the body to another or from one person or animal to another during a grafting or transplant operation

noun

1. surgery
   1. the procedure involved in such a transfer
   2. the organ or tissue transplanted

transplant

/ trăns′plănt′ /

1. A plant that has been uprooted and replanted.
2. A surgical procedure in a human or animal in which a body tissue or organ is transferred from a donor to a recipient or from one part of the body to another. Heart, lung, liver, kidney, corneal, and bone-marrow transplants are performed to treat life-threatening illness. Donated tissue must be histocompatible with that of the recipient to prevent immunological rejection.
3. See also graft

Derived Forms

• ˌtransplanˈtation, noun
• transˈplantable, adjective
• transˈplanter, noun

Other Words From

• trans·planta·ble adjective
• transplan·tation noun
• trans·planter noun
• retrans·plant verb (used with object)
• retrans·plan·tation noun
• untrans·planted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of transplant¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Late Latin trānsplantāre, equivalent to Latin trāns- trans- + plantāre to plant

Example Sentences

One common example is a person who receives an organ transplant.

From Science News For Students

Cold frames are great for starting seedlings a few weeks early and having transplants ready in April when you need them.

From Washington Post

Northwestern had determined, again, that her son would not survive a transplant.

From Washington Post

His father got a successful heart transplant last year, and as a college freshman, Sy is majoring in communications.

From Washington Post

Despite all of the research on racial disparities in transplants, the government has been slow to implement reforms.

From ProPublica

Voters easily chose Booker over his Republican opponent, recent Garden State transplant and one-time conservative hero Jeff Bell.

From The Daily Beast

We spoke with the mother of two and recent California transplant about fusing charitable work with a hectic career.

From The Daily Beast

Indeed, the body would ultimately have rejected the organ transplant.

From The Daily Beast

I was kept in handcuffs for the whole time I was in hospital for the transplant—28 days and 28 nights—which is ludicrous.

From The Daily Beast

Richard got a face transplant, a new life, and a new set of burdens too strange to predict.

From The Daily Beast

Great seed beds are made on the plantations where the plants are grown until ready to transplant in the tobacco ground.

From Project Gutenberg

As soon as four or five leaves on a plant about the size of a dollar have appeared, they are large enough to transplant.

From Project Gutenberg

It is impossible to transplant the whole of the system of one country into another.

From Project Gutenberg

He filled one end with every delicate, lacy vine and fern he could transplant successfully.

From Project Gutenberg

That is to say, some other crop is maturing on the land while the rice plants are growing large enough to transplant.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• emigrate
• graft
• immigrate
• remove
• uproot