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transplanting
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of uprooting and moving a plant to a new location; "the transplant was successful"; "too frequent transplanting is not good for plants" [syn: transplant , transplantation ]
Wiktionary
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n. transplantation vb. (present participle of transplant English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transplant \Trans*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transplanted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Transplanting .] [F. transplanter, L. transplantare; trans across, over + plantare to plant. See Plant .] To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees. --Dryden. ...
Wikipedia
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For botanical organ transplant, see Grafting In agriculture and gardening , transplanting or replanting is the technique of moving a plant from one location to another. Most often this takes the form of starting a plant from seed in optimal conditions, ...
Usage examples of transplanting.
I got home, Dolores was talking to the refrigerator, mumbling about the effect of a plaintiff from Wisconsin suing joint tortfeasors from Hawaii and New York in Nevada for negligently transplanting a kidney in Florida.
Without expecting game, some useful plant might be met with, and the young naturalist was delighted with discovering a sort of wild spinach, belonging to the order of chenopodiaceae, and numerous specimens of cruciferae, belonging to the cabbage tribe, which it would certainly be possible to cultivate by transplanting.
Sartorius is clearly a genius, a scientific mind of the first order: he invents, among other things, electroencephalography, transplanting and artificial organs.
It was grimed from working with his mother in the hydroponic garden, transplanting mutant seedlings, and the thumbnail was broken.
I fear the fault has been in having badly-rooted plants to start with, as cuttings are very slow in making an ample set of roots for safe transplanting.
Officially, the use of cloned human tissues for transplanting was only allowed to the highest of the high, those with breeding and position and a not too small fortune.
Staring dumbly out at the toiling sweltering human ant-hill Comus marvelled how missionary enthusiasts could labour hopefully at the work of transplanting their religion, with its homegrown accretions of fatherly parochial benevolence, in this heat-blistered, feverscourged wilderness, where men lived like groundbait and died like flies.
Transplanting embryonic nerve tissue onto damaged tissue to promote axonal regeneration.
Why couldn't they have left them here with us instead of transplanting them to The Beeches?
When the despair of the Greek subjects invited Calo- John as their deliverer, they hoped that he would protect their liberty and adopt their laws: they were soon taught to compare the degrees of national ferocity, and to execrate the savage conqueror, who no longer dissembled his intention of dispeopling Thrace, of demolishing the cities, and of transplanting the inhabitants beyond the Danube.
When the despair of the Greek subjects invited Calo- John as their deliverer, they hoped that he would protect their liberty and adopt their laws: they were soon taught to compare the degrees of national ferocity, and to execrate the savage conqueror, who no longer dissembled his intention of dispeopling Thrace, of demolishing the cities, and of transplanting the inhabitants beyond the Danube.
On the edge of the garden in a cold frame the tomato and bell pepper and cabbage sets were nearly ready for transplanting, waiting only for the passing of the frost danger.
Periodic transplanting, deep culture and liberal feeding produce fine blooms.
Patching and grafting, toning, regrowths, transplanting of hair, replacements— all were but delaying tactics against the relentless pressure of age.
It seems that this replacement was done occasionally even before they had any kind of mechanical substitute, by sawing off a short rib and transplanting it, covering it with a skin graft from elsewhere on the body.