transplant
/trænsˈplænt/
noun
- A medical operation in which an organ, tissue, or group of cells is moved from one body to another.
- The hospital performed over fifty kidney transplants last year.
- He received a heart transplant after waiting for two years.
- Advances in medicine have made organ transplants much safer.
- A plant that has been moved from one place to another.
- The young transplants were carefully placed in the prepared soil.
- She bought a tray of tomato transplants at the garden center.
- The transplants need extra water until their roots take hold.
- A person who has moved to a new place, especially a new country or city.
- He's a recent transplant to New York and is still exploring the city.
- The city is full of transplants who came here for work.
- As a transplant from the Midwest, she found the coastal lifestyle very different.
verb
- To move a living organ, tissue, or plant from one body or place to another.
- Scientists are researching how to transplant lab-grown skin onto burn victims.
- We need to transplant these seedlings into larger pots.
- The surgeon successfully transplanted a kidney from the donor to the patient.
- To move someone or something to a new place or environment.
- The family was transplanted from the city to a small rural town.
- She felt like a flower transplanted into rocky soil when she moved abroad.
- Many companies transplant their factories to countries with lower labor costs.