transplantation

Etymology

From Middle French transplantation, from transplanter (“to transplant”) + -ation (suffix indicating an action or process).

noun

1. The resettlement of a group of people.
2. A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant.
   1. The medicosurgical specialty (field) concerned with such operations.
   2. A particular instance of such an operation (a single procedure): a transplant.
3. The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location.
   There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove. 1761, John Mordant, The Complete Steward