transplant

present singular third person transplants · participle present transplanting · participle past transplanted · past transplanted

1. transitiveTo uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.

   Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242

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   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.

   1996, Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 141

2. transitiveTo remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.

   But after half a year the Russian Government prohibited its circulation, and as a consequence the paper ceased to appear. He then went to Tschernowitz and started a Folksblatt. Upon the advice of a friend he transplanted his paper to Jassy, Roumania.

   1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 448

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   Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits.

   1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 460

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

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. medicineAn operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
4. medicineA transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
5. USSomeone who is not native to their area of residence.

   The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.

   2012 October 29, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker