transplantings

Moving rooted plants

Transplantings are acts of moving something from one place to another—typically plants from pot to garden bed, or organs from one body to another.

The word covers both the physical process and figurative relocations: The transplantings of families from rural to urban areas disrupted traditional communities.

Each transplanting implies uprooting and reestablishment.

horticultural

seedlings

Newly germinated plants

  • gardenCultivated plant area
  • soilGround matter for planting
  • bedsFurniture for sleeping

nursery · rootballs · spacing · rows · plots · replanting · uprooting · containers · flats · hardening

relocation

uprooting

Extracting from the earth

relocations · communities · refugees · diaspora · homesteads · colonies · populations · families · settlers · movements

medical

organs

Functional body parts

  • kidneysBlood-filtering organ pair
  • heartsCirculatory system engines
  • liversBlood-filtering abdominal organs

recipients · donors · surgeries · procedures · rejections · immunosuppression · waitlists · compatibility · tissues · grafts

Opposites
plant propagation method

transplantingsdirect sowing

Planting seeds in place

direct seeding · sowing · seed sowing · drilling

cultivation vs. removal

transplantingsuprootings

Acts of displacing completely

extractions · removals · eradications · clearings · pullings

Family

transplanting

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G