单词 | transplanter |
释义 | transplantern. 1. a. One who transplants. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [noun] > transplanting > transplanter transplanter1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Transplanteur, a transplanter. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Transplanter, one that transplants. 1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 240 The failure and decay of the Top (the great opprobrium of Transplanters) is primarily to be ascribed to the entire want of skill in the preservation of these fibrous roots, on which the Tree mainly depends. 1852 Meanderings of Memory I. 21 So thence uprooted with transplanter care, In other soil it scents another air. b. spec. in Surgery, a surgeon who carries out transplant operations. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] > performing specific operations > others bone-setter?1518 circumciser1535 bronchotomist1670 acupuncturist1839 tenotomist1842 orthopaedist1853 plastic surgeon1863 resectionist1863 cephalotomist1869 amputator1882 brain surgeon1888 tracheotomist1891 neurosurgeon1925 face-lifter1928 plastician1928 psychosurgeon1945 orthopod1960 transplanter1970 1970 Daily Tel. 15 June 13/2 For Prof. Roy Calne,..pioneer liver transplanter, there is only one problem: not enough organs are being transplanted. 1971 Nature 24 Dec. 440/3 To the transplanter it may well be that if an antibody to a particular antigen can be elicited..certain typing mismatches may be of no consequence. 1977 Time (Europe ed.) 7 Mar. 43 (caption) Kidney transplanter Stubenbord with patient Jose Serrano after surgery. 1984 A. Smith Mind v. xv. 299 The needs of the transplanters formed a prime motive for redefining death. 2. An implement or contrivance for transplanting. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > transplanting machine or tool transplanting machine1827 transplanter1828 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Transplanter,..2. a machine for transplanting trees. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 16 The transplanter is a tool with handles at one end, and a couple of semicircular blades at the other, which, when closed, form a hollow cylinder. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Transplanter, a horse-power machine used in setting out tobacco or other field plants. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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