Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of removing and resetting, as a plant; transplantation.
- noun That which is transplanted.
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- verb Present participle of
transplant .
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- noun the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
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Examples
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At some point we will be successful in transplanting islet cells without anti-rejection drugs at all.
Riva Greenberg: Curing Diabetes: How Close Are We? Riva Greenberg 2010
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Once “in-game terrorists” succeeded in transplanting it to the major population cities such as Orgrimmar, capital for the Horde, the sheer numbers of players in the area resulted in a sweeping spread to everyone.
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I console myself with the knowledge that we will have to come back here to dig up some of our perennials we are transplanting from the garden here to the new place, and I can sneak off to the woods and forage some ramps for us to take home.
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That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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Thomas was successful in transplanting bone marrow cells from one individual to another.
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That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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