v. & n.
--v.tr.
1. a plant in another place (transplanted the daffodils). b move to another place (whole nations were transplanted).
2 Surgery transfer (living tissue or an organ) and implant in another part of the body or in another body.
--n.
1. Surgery a the transplanting of an organ or tissue. b such an organ etc.
2 a thing, esp. a plant, transplanted.
Derivatives:
transplantable adj. transplantation n. transplanter n.
Etymology: ME f. LL transplantare (as TRANS-, PLANT)