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transplanter|trɑːnsˈplɑːntə(r), træns-|
[f. transplant v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who transplants. Also attrib.
1611Cotgr., Transplanteur, a transplanter. 1755Johnson, Transplanter, one that transplants. 1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 240 The failure and decay of the Top (the great opprobrium of Transplanters) is primarily to be ascribed to the entire want of skill in the preservation of these fibrous roots, on which the Tree mainly depends. 1852Meanderings of Mem. I. 21 So thence uprooted with transplanter care, In other soil it scents another air.
b. spec. in Surg., a surgeon who carries out transplant operations.
1970Daily Tel. 15 June 13/2 For Prof. Roy Calne,..pioneer liver transplanter, there is only one problem: not enough organs are being transplanted. 1971Nature 24 Dec. 440/3 To the transplanter it may well be that if an antibody to a particular antigen can be elicited..certain typing mismatches may be of no consequence. 1977Time 7 Mar. 43 (caption) Kidney transplanter Stubenbord with patient Jose Serrano after surgery. 1984A. Smith Mind v. xv. 299 The needs of the transplanters formed a prime motive for redefining death.
2. An implement or contrivance for transplanting.
1828Webster, Transplanter,..2. a machine for transplanting trees. 1855Delamer Kitch. Gard. (1861) 16 The transplanter is a tool with handles at one end, and a couple of semicircular blades at the other, which, when closed, form a hollow cylinder. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Transplanter, a horse-power machine used in setting out tobacco or other field plants. |