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.
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   2. To remove, and settle or establish for residence in
      another place; as, to transplant inhabitants.
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            Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese
            of St. David into a warmer climate.   --Clarendon.
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	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]

	

	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