transplant

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

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

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

   Hyponyms: autotransplant, allotransplant, isotransplant, xenotransplant

4. (medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.

   Hyponyms: autograft, allograft, isograft, xenograft

5. (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.

• (non-native person): immigrant, migrant, emigrant

transplant m (plural transplants)

1. transplant (healthy organ that is transplanted)

• “transplant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French transplant.

transplant n (plural transplanturi)

1. transplant