transplant
verb /trænsˈplɑːnt/
/trænsˈplænt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they transplant | /trænsˈplɑːnt/ /trænsˈplænt/ |
| he / she / it transplants | /trænsˈplɑːnts/ /trænsˈplænts/ |
| past simple transplanted | /trænsˈplɑːntɪd/ /trænsˈplæntɪd/ |
| past participle transplanted | /trænsˈplɑːntɪd/ /trænsˈplæntɪd/ |
| -ing form transplanting | /trænsˈplɑːntɪŋ/ /trænsˈplæntɪŋ/ |
- transplant something (from somebody/something) (into somebody/something) to take an organ, skin, etc. from one person, animal, part of the body, etc. and put it into or onto another
- Surgeons have successfully transplanted a liver into a four-year-old boy.
- Patients often reject transplanted organs.
- Organs are transplanted from donors into patients who need them.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- successfully
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- transplant something to move a growing plant and plant it somewhere else
- The Dutch successfully transplanted trees to the East Indies.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- successfully
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- transplant somebody/something (from…) (to/into…) (formal) to move somebody/something to a different place or environment
- Japanese production methods have been transplanted into some British factories.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- successfully
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Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb describing the repositioning of a plant): from late Latin transplantare, from Latin trans- ‘across’ + plantare ‘to plant’. The noun dates from the mid 18th cent.