transplant

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: trans=plant

CIDE DICTIONARY

transplant, v. t. [F. transplanter, L. transplantare; trans across, over + plantare to plant. See Plant.].

•  To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants.  [1913 Webster]

  "Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

transplant, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 a plant in another place (transplanted the daffodils). b move to another place (whole nations were transplanted).
2 Surgery transfer (living tissue or an organ) and implant in another part of the body or in another body.
--n.
1 Surgery a the transplanting of an organ or tissue. b such an organ etc.
2 a thing, esp. a plant, transplanted.

Derivative

transplantable adj. transplantation n. transplanter n.

Etymology

ME f. LL transplantare (as TRANS-, PLANT)

THESAURUS

transplant

amputation, anastomotic operation, assign, bed, bloodless operation, broadcast, capital operation, carry over, communicate, compensating operation, consign, corneal transplant, crescent operation, deliver, deport, dibble, diffuse, displace, disseminate, drill, elective operation, embedment, emergency operation, entrance, excision, expel, exploratory operation, export, extradite, fenestration operation, forest, graft, grafting, hand forward, hand on, hand over, heart transplant, impaction, impactment, impart, implant, implantation, import, infixion, infusion, injection, inoculation, inseminate, insertion, insinuation, interjection, interpolation, interval operation, introduction, intromission, kidney transplant, major operation, make over, metastasize, metathesize, minor operation, move, operation, organ transplant, organ transplantation, palliative operation, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, penetration, perfuse, perfusion, plant, pot, put in, radical operation, reforest, relay, relocate, removal, remove, resection, reset, resettle, retimber, scatter seed, section, seed, seed down, seminate, set, shift, sow, sow broadcast, spread, surgical intervention, surgical operation, surgical technique, switch, tessellation, the knife, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplantation, transpose, turn over, uproot

ROGET THESAURUS

transplant

Transference

VB transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant, translocate, convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry, carry over, ferry over, hand pass, forward, shift, conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach, tote, port, import, export, send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver, ship, embark, waft, shunt, transpose, displace, throw, drag, mail, post, shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon.