transplant

CEFRB2

/tɹɑːnzˈplɑːnt/

verb · noun

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In plain English

01
verb
To move a plant or organ to a new place or body.
02
noun
A plant or organ moved to a new place or body.

Examples

The surgeon persuaded him to undergo an organ transplant.
The surgeon persuaded me to undergo an organ transplant operation.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/ˈtɹɑːnzplɑːnt/

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verb

Extra meanings

To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.

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In context

Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.
The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.

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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
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
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
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
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

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Origin

verb

From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- + plant.

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verb

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The surgeon will blank the healthy kidney from the donor into the patient.