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say it: tran-SPLAN-ting
transplanting is a noun meaning "the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location". It is pronounced /tɹænˈsplæntɪŋ/ — tran-SPLAN-ting. It carries one recorded sense.
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 transplanting 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.