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transplant
transitive verb
- to dig up (a growing plant) from one place and plant it in another
- to remove (people, animals, etc.) from one place and resettle in another
- Surgery to transfer (tissue or an organ) from one individual or part of the body to another; graft
intransitive verb
- to do transplanting
- to be capable of enduring transplantation
noun
- the act or an instance of transplanting
- something transplanted, as a body organ or seedling
Related Forms:
- transplantable adjective
- transplantation noun
- transplanter noun
See transplant in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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