retransplantv.
/ˌriːtransˈplɑːnt/, /ˌriːtrɑːnsˈplɑːnt/, /ˌriːtransˈplant/, U.S. /ˌriˌtræn(t)sˈplænt/ transitive. To transplant (something or someone) again; to remove to another or a previous location; (Medicine) to subject to a second or subsequent transplant.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants [verb (transitive)] > transplant
overplantOE
transplantc1440
transearth1628
retransplant1763
shift1830
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 162 They must be re-transplanted on the ridges where they are to remain.
1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire II. 267 In strictness of management, they ought, two years previous to their being transferred to the orchard, to be retransplanted.
1840 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 33 203 (note) If the destruction from this cause be considerable, it may be necessary to perform a second operation, and re-transplant a fresh portion of healthy integument.
1880 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 212 It would be as impossible..to retransplant the emigrants and their descendants to Irish soil.
1911 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 1 61 In the background towered taller ferns,..both of which ferns had flourished for many years far from their native wood and had been retransplanted to this garden.
1922 Lancet 8 July 86/2 True neoplasms almost always grow if removed from the animal in which they grow and retransplanted into it.
1990 Conservation Biol. 4 446/1 Instead of ‘retransplanting’ the mammalian fauna to Los Tuxtlas..we will establish exclosures at the Lacandon forest.
2008 Jrnl. Pediatric Surg. 43 1607/1 1 child out of 24 was retransplanted owing to portal vein thrombosis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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