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transplant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• trănzʹplănt (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈtɹænzplɑːnt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtɹɑːnzplɑːnt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtɹænzplænt/ (US)
• tränzʹplänt or trănzʹplänt (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- + plant.

Meanings

1. An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
2. Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
3. An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
4. A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
5. (US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
   • The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke. 2012 October 29, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker:

Forms

Deriveds

pretransplant · tranniversary · faecal transplant · transplantology · peritransplant · fecal microbiota transplant · lipotransplant · homotransplant · fecal transplant · cotransplant · beating-heart transplant · transplantectomy · nontransplant · organ transplant · homeotransplant · transplantee · genome transplant · posttransplant · heterotransplant

Relateds

migrant (non-native person) · immigrant (non-native person) · emigrant (non-native person)

Translations (54)

mi huarangatanga (act of uprooting and moving) · hi प्रत्यारोपण (medicine: operation) · pl transplantacja (medicine: operation) · ga athphlandáil (act of uprooting and moving) · cs transplantát (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted) · fr transplantation (act of uprooting and moving) · ru транспланта́ция (medicine: operation) · fr transplantation (medicine: operation) · pt transplante (medicine: operation) · es transplante (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted) · es transplante (thing transplanted) · hy փոխպատվաստում (medicine: operation) · fi siirrännäinen (thing transplanted) · bg трансплант (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted) · de Transplantation (medicine: operation) · da transplantat (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted) · tl lipattanim (act of uprooting and moving) · da transplantation (medicine: operation) · bg разсад (thing transplanted) · hi प्रत्यारोपण (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted) · es transplante (act of uprooting and moving) · ro transplantare (medicine: operation) · pl przeszczep (medicine: operation) · fi siirto (medicine: operation) · fi siirtäminen (act of uprooting and moving) · ka გადანერგვა (act of uprooting and moving) · ro transplantare (act of uprooting and moving) · es transplante (medicine: operation) · it trapianto (medicine: operation) · tl lipattatag (medicine: operation) · ja 移植 (medicine: operation) · ro organ transplantat (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted) · es trasplante (medicine: operation) · pl przeszczep (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted) · es trasplante (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted) · gl transplante (medicine: operation) · ka გადანერგილი ორგანო (thing transplanted) · bg присаждане (medicine: operation) · fi siirto (act of uprooting and moving) · cs transplantace (medicine: operation) · fr greffon (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted) · fi siirre (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted) · cmn 移植 (medicine: operation) · pl przesadzenie (act of uprooting and moving) · fr greffe (medicine: operation) · ar زَرْع (medicine: operation) · bg пресаждане (act of uprooting and moving) · ka ტრანსპლანტატი (thing transplanted) · bg транспланта́ция (medicine: operation) · fi elinsiirto (medicine: operation) · ru переса́дка (medicine: operation) · pt transplantação (act of uprooting and moving) · gl transplante (act of uprooting and moving) · ro țesut transplantat (medicine: organ/tissue transplanted)

transplant en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /tɹænzˈplænt/ (US)
• /tɹænzˈplɑːnt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /tɹɑːnzˈplɑːnt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• tränzpläntʹ or trănzpläntʹ (Received-Pronunciation)
• trănzplăntʹ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- + plant.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
   • Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242:
   • A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky. 1996, Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 141:
2. (transitive) To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
   • Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits. 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 460:
   • But after half a year the Russian Government prohibited its circulation, and as a consequence the paper ceased to appear. He then went to Tschernowitz and started a Folksblatt. Upon the advice of a friend he transplanted his paper to Jassy, Roumania. 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 448:
3. (transitive) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.

Forms

Deriveds

nontransplanted · xenotransplanted · transplantable · transplantability · retransplant · isotransplanted · untransplanted

Translations (78)

ga athphlandáil (uproot and replant (a plant)) · de verpflanzen (uproot and replant (a plant)) · mi huaranga (uproot and replant (a plant)) · fi siirtää (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · ja 移植する (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · ar زَرَعَ (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · de umsetzen (resettle or relocate (something)) · ru пересади́ть (uproot and replant (a plant)) · fr transplanter (resettle or relocate (something)) · cmn 移植 (uproot and replant (a plant)) · pl przesadzać (uproot and replant (a plant)) · ca trasplantar (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · nrf transplianter (resettle or relocate (something)) · vi cấy (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · it trapiantare (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · ru переса́живать (uproot and replant (a plant)) · es trasplantar (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · cmn 移植 (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · es trasplantar (uproot and replant (a plant)) · da transplantere (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · pl przeszczepić (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · fr transplanter (uproot and replant (a plant)) · pt transplantar (uproot and replant (a plant)) · de transplantieren (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · fr greffer (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · bg трансплантирам (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · es transplantar (uproot and replant (a plant)) · fi siirtoistuttaa (uproot and replant (a plant)) · da omplante (uproot and replant (a plant)) · ar شَتَلَ (uproot and replant (a plant)) · ru переселя́ть (resettle or relocate (something)) · ba күсереп ултыртыу (uproot and replant (a plant)) · pl przesiedlać (resettle or relocate (something)) · pt transplantar (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · ast tresllantar (uproot and replant (a plant)) · de verpflanzen (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · es transplantar (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · cmn 移植 (resettle or relocate (something)) · fi siirtää (uproot and replant (a plant)) · ca trasplantar (uproot and replant (a plant)) · mi huaranga (resettle or relocate (something)) · eo prikli (uproot and replant (a plant)) · ru пересели́ть (resettle or relocate (something)) · fi siirtää (resettle or relocate (something)) · mi huaranga (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · ru пересади́ть (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · da udplante (uproot and replant (a plant)) · hi रोपना (uproot and replant (a plant)) · it trapiantare (uproot and replant (a plant)) · fr déplacer (resettle or relocate (something)) · ru переса́живать (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · ru транспланти́ровать (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · ca trasplantar (resettle or relocate (something)) · cs transplantovat (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · bg преселвам (resettle or relocate (something)) · pl przesiedlić (resettle or relocate (something)) · ja 移植する (uproot and replant (a plant)) · ro transplanta (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · de umpflanzen (uproot and replant (a plant)) · ro replanta (uproot and replant (a plant)) · it trapiantare (resettle or relocate (something)) · vi cấy (uproot and replant (a plant)) · es trasplantar (resettle or relocate (something)) · az köçürmək (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · bg присаждам (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · gl transplantar (uproot and replant (a plant)) · es transplantar (resettle or relocate (something)) · hy փոխպատվաստել (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · pt transplantar (resettle or relocate (something)) · pl przeszczepiać (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · ar زَرَعَ (uproot and replant (a plant)) · bg пресаждам (uproot and replant (a plant)) · gl transplantar (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ)) · az köçürmək (resettle or relocate (something)) · ast tresplantar (uproot and replant (a plant)) · nrf transplianter (uproot and replant (a plant)) · pl przesadzić (uproot and replant (a plant)) · hi प्रत्यारोपण (medicine: transfer (tissue/organ))