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trans·plant

(trăns-plănt)

v. trans·plant·ed, trans·plant·ing, trans·plants

v.tr.

1. To uproot and replant (a growing plant).

2. To transfer from one place or residence to another; resettle or relocate: residents were transplanted to the suburbs during the massive reconstruction project.

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

v.intr.

To be capable of being transplanted: plants that transplant well.

n. (trănsplănt′)

a. The act or process of transplanting something.

b. Medicine An operation in which an organ, body part, or other tissue is transplanted: a corneal transplant.

2. Something that is transplanted, especially:

a. A plant that has been uprooted and replanted in another place.

b. Medicine An organ, body part, or other tissue that has been transplanted, as from one person to another.

3. A person who has resettled in a different place.

[Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin trānsplantāre : Latin trāns, trans- + Latin plantāre, to plant; see plat- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

trans·planta·ble adj.

trans′plan·tation n.

trans·planter n.

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