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transplant

/tɹænsplˈænt/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

verb

  1. lift and reset in another soil or situation
    “Transplant the young rice plants”
  2. be transplantable
    “These delicate plants do not transplant easily”
  3. place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
  4. transfer from one place or period to another
    “The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America”

noun

  1. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
  2. an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
    “he had a kidney transplant”
  3. the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
    “the transplant did not flower until the second year”

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Words that rhyme with transplant

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