transplantern.
/trɑːnsˈplɑːntə/, /transˈplɑːntə/, /transˈplantə/, U.S. /træn(t)sˈplæn(t)ər/ 1.
a. One who transplants. Also attributive.
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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.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] > performing specific operations > others
bone-setter?1518
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acupuncturist1839
tenotomist1842
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plastic surgeon1863
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tracheotomist1891
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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.
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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.
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