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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
transplant
/trænˈsplænt/
noun1 of 2
a medical operation in which a new organ is placed inside a patient's body
- “The surgeon persuaded me to undergo an organ transplant operation.”Tatoeba
- “The surgeon persuaded him to undergo an organ transplant.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))