means To move something living — an organ, a plant, a person — from one place or body and re-establish it in another.

from From Latin 'transplantare,' a tidy fusion of 'trans-' (across) and 'plantare' (to plant, from 'planta,' the sole of the foot — because you pressed a seedling into the soil with your heel). It began literally in the garden, uprooting and replanting, before it grew to cover uprooted people and, much later, the borrowed organs of modern medicine.