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say it: tran-SPLANT
transplant is a verb and noun meaning "lift and reset in another soil or situation". It carries 7 recorded senses.
place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
surgery
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for transplant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.