Verb: transplant trans'plant [N. Amer], trans'plãnt or trãnz'plãnt [Brit]- Lift and reset in another soil or situation
"Transplant the young rice plants"; - transfer - Be transplantable
"These delicate plants do not transplant easily" - Place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
- graft - Change the setting from one place or period to another
"The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"; - transfer, transpose Noun: transplant trans'plant [N. Amer], trans'plãnt or trãnz'plãnt [Brit]- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- graft - An operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
"he had a kidney transplant"; "a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago"; - transplantation, organ transplant - The act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
"the transplant did not flower until the second year"; - transplantation, transplanting
Derived forms: transplanted, transplants, transplanting Type of: animal tissue, be, displace, enter, infix, insert, introduce, movement, op [informal], operation, shift, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process Encyclopedia: Transplant |