transplant
verb
trans·plant
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transplanted;
transplanting;
transplants
Definition of transplant
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
: to lift and reset (a plant) in another soil or situation
2
: to remove from one place or context and settle or introduce elsewhere : relocate
3
: to transfer (an organ or tissue) from one part or individual to another
: to tolerate being transplanted
does not transplant as well as other varieties
transplant
noun
trans·plant
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Definition of transplant (Entry 2 of 2)
1a
: a person or thing that is transplanted
b
: a manufacturing plant set up locally by a foreign automobile company to save on shipping costs
bumpers shipped to a Japanese transplant in the U.S.
2
: the act or process of transplanting
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Other Words from transplant
Verb
transplantability
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noun
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noun
transplantable
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adjective
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adjective
transplantation
\ ˌtran(t)s-ˌplan-ˈtā-shən
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noun
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noun
transplanter
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noun
Examples of transplant in a Sentence
Verb
She carefully transplanted the seedlings. The bush was transplanted to a different part of the garden. Doctors transplanted one of his kidneys into his sister. a recipient of a transplanted heart The group transplanted the beavers to another part of the state. She is a New Yorker who recently transplanted to the West Coast.Noun
The heart transplant was successful. He is going to need a liver transplant. The doctors are trying to keep him alive until a liver can be found for transplant. The patient's body rejected the transplant. She received a bone marrow transplant from an unknown donor. She's a Southern transplant who now lives in New York.
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Nakauchi's ultimate goal is to produce animals with organs made of human cells that can, eventually, be transplanted into people. — David Cyranoski, Scientific American, "Japan Approves First Human-Animal Embryo Experiments," 9 Aug. 2019 Subsequently, this recipe for success was transplanted to the western United States, begetting Sun Valley, Vail, Jackson Hole, as well as numerous other mountain towns around world, from Nepal to Peru, Pakistan to Patagonia. — Mark Jenkins, National Geographic, "How the pursuit of one European peak gave rise to modern mountaineering," 1 Aug. 2019 The engine is transplanted to the middle of the car, making for better handling, and the manual transmission is gone, at least in the base model. — Staff And News Service Reports, The Mercury News, "Photos: General Motors unveils its new Corvette Stingray in Tustin," 20 July 2019 By transplanting the engine to the middle of the car, GM says the new Corvette will handle better on the track and take on Porsche, Ferrari and Lamborghini. — David Welchbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, "GM defies a shrinking sports car market with its new, sub-$60,000 Corvette," 19 July 2019 Judd Apatow’s entire oeuvre is based on transplanting rom-com tropes into movies aimed more explicitly at the guy-heavy raunch-com audience. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Why romantic comedies matter," 29 Aug. 2018 From a new regenerative drug to a hair-transplanting robot: a trip on the frontiers of dealing with male-pattern baldness. — Amos Barshad, The New Yorker, "Cartoons from the July 8 & 15, 2019, Issue," 7 June 2018 Last year, about 21,000 kidneys were transplanted nationwide. — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, "New hope for kidney disease patients in San Antonio," 13 July 2019 Men and women spent almost the same time on agricultural labour—the former spent 10 hours ploughing and preparing the land while the latter spent roughly nine hours planting and transplanting paddy seedlings. — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, "Between domestic chores and agricultural work, rural Indian women have no time for child-rearing," 10 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The average wait time for a Coloradoan in need of a kidney transplant is 5 to 7 years, depending on blood type. — Mike Chambers, The Denver Post, "Mike Christie, former DU hockey star and Colorado Rockies captain, was impactful coach and genuine jokester," 30 July 2019 America lost its greatest thinker on drug policy and criminal justice on Sunday, when Mark Kleiman died at the age of 68 from complications of a kidney transplant. — Gabriel Rossman, National Review, "Mark Kleiman Was the Nation’s Greatest Thinker on Drug Policy," 23 July 2019 In April, Hoffman, who leads St. Andrews Lutheran Church and is a chaplain for the Park Ridge Police Department, donated 60 percent of his liver to Totten, a young mother who was in need of a transplant following a cancer diagnosis. — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, "A church pastor donated part of his liver to a Park Ridge mother with cancer: ‘I just felt God present, truly’," 16 July 2019 The administration is also proposing ways to reduce the national shortage of organ transplants, including making the organ procurement process more efficient and reducing the number of organs that are discarded. — Robert Gebelhoff, Twin Cities, "Robert Gebelhoff: The Trump administration is actually doing something great on health care," 14 July 2019 In fact, within the first month of transplant, four people died, according to the report. — oregonlive.com, "Deaths at OHSU heart transplant program spiked before program shut down," 12 July 2019 One is to increase the rate of kidney transplants, which sharply reduce the cost of treating kidney disease. — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, "Trump’s vaunted kidney initiative depends on Obamacare, which he's trying to kill," 11 July 2019 Adams looked to pull together all the threads of these different lines of research by conducting a study on the efficacy of fecal transplants in kids with ASD. — Bob Roehr, Smithsonian, "How the Gut Microbiome Could Provide a New Tool to Treat Autism," 14 June 2019 Since 1988, the number of transplants has quadrupled. — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, "These are the organs transplant patients need the most," 30 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'transplant.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for transplant
transplant
verb
English Language Learners Definition of transplant
(Entry 1 of 2)
: to remove (a plant) from the ground or from a pot and move it to another place
medical
: to perform a medical operation in which an organ or other part that has been removed from the body of one person is put into the body of another person
: to move (a person or animal) to a new home
transplant
noun
English Language Learners Definition of transplant (Entry 2 of 2)
: a medical operation in which an organ or other part is removed from the body of one person and put into the body of another person
: an organ, piece of skin, etc., that is transplanted
: a person who has moved to a new home especially in a different region or country