transplant

Etymology

From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- + plant.

verb

1. (transitive) To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
   A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky. 1996, Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, Harvard University Press, page 141
2. (transitive) To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
3. (transitive, medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.

noun

1. An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
2. Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
3. (medicine) An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
4. (medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
5. (US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
   The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke. 29 Oct 2012, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker