Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - transplant

 I. verb  Etymology: Middle English transplaunten, from Late Latin ~are, from Latin trans- + plantare to plant  Date: 15th century  transitive verb  1. to lift and reset (a plant) in another soil or situation  2. to remove from one place or context and settle or introduce elsewhere ; relocate  3. to transfer (an organ or tissue) from one part or individual to another  intransitive verb to tolerate being ~ed does not ~ as well as other varieties  • ~ability noun  • ~able adjective  • ~ation noun  • ~er noun  II. noun  Date: 1756  1.  a. a person or thing that is ~ed  b. a manufacturing plant set up locally by a foreign automobile company to save on shipping costs bumpers shipped to a Japanese ~ in the United States  2. the act or process of ~ing