different between transplant vs interplant

English

Etymology

From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- +? plant.

Pronunciation

Verb

transplant (third-person singular simple present transplants, present participle transplanting, simple past and past participle transplanted)

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

Translations

Noun

transplant (plural 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.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French transplant.

Noun

transplant n (plural transplanturi)

1. transplant

Declension

English

Etymology

inter- +? plant

Adjective

interplant (not comparable)

1. (manufacturing) Between manufacturing plants or divisions.
   • 1935, Roy C. Ingersoll, "Ring for Packaging," US Patent 2119745 [1], page 2:

     In interplant and interdepartmental shipments, it has been found that the cost of packaging is prohibitive where the articles or bodies of merchandise are individually crated or cased.

2. (agriculture) Between plants.
   • 1977, Lawrence L. Ingram et al., "Transplanting apparatus," US Patent 4104975, page 8:

     the patented machine functions to deposit the plants onto the field at only one fixed spatial relationship whereby the machine cannot accommodate different crops and/or different growing conditions wherein different interplant spacings might be required.

Verb

interplant (third-person singular simple present interplants, present participle interplanting, simple past and past participle interplanted)

1. (agriculture) To alternate plantings of two or more species.
   • 1931, Wendell H. Tisdale, "Insect Repellent," US Patent 2205232 [2], page 4:

     The most extensive of these field tests was conducted in a 5-acre young apple orchard temporarily interplanted, as is frequently the custom, with peach trees.

Related terms

• transplant