noun / verb
transplant
trans-PLANT/trænsˈplænt/
To move a living thing to a new location for continued growth or function.
The gardener transplants a young seedling into a larger pot.
Etymology
Planting across in another place originally meant moving a plant and planting it anew. This image extended to people settling elsewhere and to organs or tissue transferred within or between bodies.
In context
once they have two or three sets of true leaves you can transplant them out to their final location
More examples
- Surgeons transplant a healthy kidney into the patient.
- She needs a bone marrow transplant to treat her illness.
- A recent transplant from Ohio, he now calls Arizona home.
Forms
transplant · transplants · transplanted · transplanting
transplantation noun — The transfer of organs, tissue, or plants.
Similar words
- replant
- Specifically means planting something again, often in a new location.
- relocate
- Means moving to another place, without implying continued biological function.
- graft
- Joins living tissue to another plant or body part.