transplanting

Meanings

Plural: transplantings

Noun

• the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
  • "too frequent transplanting is not good for families"
• transplantation

Verb

• lift and reset in another soil or situation
• be transplantable
• place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
• transfer from one place or period to another
• present participle and gerund of transplant

Synonyms

graft, transfer, transplant, transplantation, transpose