transplant
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- + plant.
Base: plant
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
form: transplants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transplanting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transplanted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transplanted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: transplants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.
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.
gloss: To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
pos: noun
gloss: An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
pos: noun
gloss: A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.
Derived words: isotransplanted
nontransplanted
retransplant
transplantability
transplantable
untransplanted
xenotransplanted
beating-heart transplant
cotransplant
faecal transplant
fecal microbiota transplant
fecal transplant
genome transplant
heterotransplant
homeotransplant
homotransplant
lipotransplant
nontransplant
organ transplant
peritransplant
posttransplant
pretransplant
tranniversary
transplantectomy
transplantee
transplantology
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: трансплант
roman: transplant
lang: Czech
word: transplantát
lang: Danish
word: transplantat
lang: Finnish
word: siirre
lang: French
word: greffon
lang: Hindi
word: प्रत्यारोपण
roman: pratyāropaṇ
lang: Polish
word: przeszczep
lang: Romanian
word: organ transplantat
lang: Romanian
word: țesut transplantat
lang: Spanish
word: trasplante
lang: Spanish
word: transplante