transplantとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

動詞

transplant (三人称単数 現在形 transplants, 現在分詞 transplanting, 過去形および過去分詞形 transplanted)

1. (transitive) To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
   • 1996, Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 141:

     A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky.

2. (transitive) To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
3. (transitive, medicine) To transfer (tissue または an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.

名詞

transplant (複数形 transplants)

1. An act of uprooting and moving (something).
2. Anything that is transplanted.
3. (medicine) An operation in which tissue or an organ is transplanted.
4. (medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue.
5. (US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
   • 2012, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 29 Oct 2012:

     The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.

参考

• (non-native person): immigrant, migrant, emigrant