transplant

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
noun an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
noun the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location

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

For a 21 year old transplant from Darien, Connecticut, he lived in paradise. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
She pardoned him for being attracted by that beautiful transplant of the fields: pardoned her likewise. — Complete Short Works of George Meredith, George Meredith
A notation of the cries in air at a time of surgent public excitement can hardly yield us music; and the wording of them, by the aid of compounds and transplants, metaphors and similes only just within range of the arrows of Phoebus’ bow (i.e. the farthest flight known), would, while it might imitate the latent poetry, expose venturesome writers to the wrath of a people commendably believing their language a perfected instrument when they prefer the request for a plateful, and commissioning their literary police to brain audacious experimenters who enlarge or wing it beyond the downright aim at that mark. — The Amazing Marriage — Complete, George Meredith

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