Transplant Meaning
/tɹɑːnzˈplɑːnt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
verbTo remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
Sentence Examples
The surgeon persuaded me to undergo an organ transplant operation.
The surgeon persuaded him to undergo an organ transplant.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The surgeon will ____ the healthy kidney from the donor into the patient.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The patient underwent a successful kidney ____ last month and is now recovering very well in the city hospital today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- + plant.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The surgeon will ____ the healthy kidney from the donor into the patient.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The patient underwent a successful kidney ____ last month and is now recovering very well in the city hospital today.