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transplant
 
Noun transplant has 3 senses
  1. graft, transplant - (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
    --1 is a kind of animal tissue
    --1 has particulars:
     autograft, autoplasty; homograft, allograft; heterograft, xenograft
    Derived form: verb transplant3
  2. transplant, transplantation, organ transplant - an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant"
    --2 is a kind of operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
    --2 has particulars:
     keratoplasty, corneal graft, corneal transplant; xenotransplant, xenotransplantation
    Derived form: verb transplant3
  3. transplant, transplanting, transplantation - the act of uprooting and moving a plant to a new location; "the transplant was successful"; "too frequent transplanting is not good for plants"
    --3 is a kind of movement
    Derived forms: verb transplant2, verb transplant1
Verb transplant has 4 senses
  1. transplant, transfer - lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants"
    --1 is one way to displace, force out
    Derived forms: noun transplant3, noun transplantation3, noun transplanter1, noun transplanting1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP
  2. transplant - be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant easily"
    --2 is one way to     be
    Derived form: noun transplant3
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  3. transplant, graft - place athe organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
    --3 is one way to insert, infix, enter, introduce
    Derived forms: noun transplant1, noun transplant2, noun transplantation2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP
  4. transfer, transpose, transplant - transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"
    --4 is one way to shift
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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