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NOUN (3)

1. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient;
[syn: graft, transplant]

2. an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient);
- Example: "he had a kidney transplant"
- Example: "the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent"
- Example: "a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago"
[syn: transplant, transplantation, organ transplant]

3. the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location;
- Example: "the transplant did not flower until the second year"
- Example: "too frequent transplanting is not good for families"
- Example: "she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation"
[syn: transplant, transplantation, transplanting]


VERB (4)

1. lift and reset in another soil or situation;
- Example: "Transplant the young rice plants"
[syn: transplant, transfer]

2. be transplantable;
- Example: "These delicate plants do not transplant easily"

3. place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient;
[syn: transplant, graft]

4. transfer from one place or period to another;
- Example: "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"
[syn: transfer, transpose, transplant]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Transplant \Trans*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transplanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transplanting.] [F. transplanter, L. transplantare; trans across, over + plantare to plant. See Plant.] 1. To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants. [1913 Webster] Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

transplant n 1: (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient [syn: graft, transplant] 2: an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant"; "the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent"; "a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago" [syn: transplant, transplantation, organ 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"; "too frequent transplanting is not good for families"; "she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation" [syn: transplant, transplantation, transplanting] v 1: lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants" [syn: transplant, transfer] 2: be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant easily" 3: place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient [syn: transplant, graft] 4: transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn: transfer, transpose, transplant]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

113 Moby Thesaurus words for "transplant": amputation, anastomotic operation, assign, bed, bloodless operation, broadcast, capital operation, carry over, communicate, compensating operation, consign, corneal transplant, crescent operation, deliver, deport, dibble, diffuse, displace, disseminate, drill, elective operation, embedment, emergency operation, entrance, excision, expel, exploratory operation, export, extradite, fenestration operation, forest, graft, grafting, hand forward, hand on, hand over, heart transplant, impaction, impactment, impart, implant, implantation, import, infixion, infusion, injection, inoculation, inseminate, insertion, insinuation, interjection, interpolation, interval operation, introduction, intromission, kidney transplant, major operation, make over, metastasize, metathesize, minor operation, move, operation, organ transplant, organ transplantation, palliative operation, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, penetration, perfuse, perfusion, plant, pot, put in, radical operation, reforest, relay, relocate, removal, remove, resection, reset, resettle, retimber, scatter seed, section, seed, seed down, seminate, set, shift, sow, sow broadcast, spread, surgical intervention, surgical operation, surgical technique, switch, tessellation, the knife, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplantation, transpose, turn over, uproot