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Antonyms for transplant

Grammar : Verb
Spell : verb trans-plant, -plahnt; noun trans-plant, -plahnt
Phonetic Transcription : verb trænsˈplænt, -ˈplɑnt; noun ˈtrænsˌplænt, -ˌplɑnt

Definition of transplant

Origin :
  • mid-15c., from Late Latin transplantare "plant again in a different place," from Latin trans- "across" (see trans-) + plantare "to plant" (see plant (v.)). Extended to people (1550s) and then to organs or tissue (1786). Related: Transplanted; transplanting.
  • verb relocate
Example sentences :
  • The only thing to do with that plant is to transplant it and let it get nourishment in a new spot.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • He was the first man to transplant glands from a human to a human.
  • Extract from : « The Goat-gland Transplantation » by Sydney B. Flower
  • You may take up a sapling and transplant it, but the old tree, never!
  • Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Detroit » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • Still, it will spoil these to transplant them, so they might just as well have been pumpkins.
  • Extract from : « At the Little Brown House » by Ruth Alberta Brown
  • Transplant these exotics to their native soil, and you would see what it was in them to be.
  • Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
  • Transplant the vines in the early Spring, or, better, in the Fall.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
  • Transplant at evening, or, which is better, just before a shower.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
  • Transplant to rows two feet and a half apart, and two feet apart in the rows.
  • Extract from : « The Field and Garden Vegetables of America » by Fearing Burr
  • I will not transplant them to the garden of Epicurus, but to another, where the air is more bracing.
  • Extract from : « Cleopatra, Complete » by Georg Ebers
  • Was not a whole family broken and wilting for lack of means to transplant it?
  • Extract from : « A Bookful of Girls » by Anna Fuller

Synonyms for transplant

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