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1. That which is transplanted; spec. in forestry, a seedling transplanted once or several times.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica, 163. Very few transplants of the kind thrive.
1885. P. MacOwan, Rep. Cape Town Bot. Gard. for 1884, 9. A box of 25 transplants.
1898. F. Whitmore, in Atlantic Monthly, April, 507/1. There was nothing for it but to sow seeds for transplants.
fig. 1891. M. Dods, Erasmus, etc., 81. They do not appear as transplants in the writings of Plato.
2. The transferring of bacterial organisms from one medium to another for purposes of culture.
1900. Jrnl. Exper. Med. (U.S.), 25 Oct., 173. Both microorganisms failed to survive the exposure, transplants failing to produce a growth on broth and on kidney.
