1. Place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
   "The surgeons successfully transplanted the kidney into the patient";
   - graft
    
2. Lift and reset in another soil or situation
   "Transplant the young rice plants";
   - transfer
    
3. Change the setting from one place or period to another
   "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America";
   - transfer, transpose
    
4. Be transplantable
   "These delicate plants do not transplant easily"

1. 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
    
2. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
   "He received a heart transplant after years of waiting";
   - graft
    
3. 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, exist, infix, insert, introduce, movement, op [informal], operation, shift, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process

Encyclopedia: Transplant