transplantation noun5 •A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant. •A particular instance of such an operation (a single procedure): a transplant. •The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location.There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove. — 1761 •The resettlement of a group of people. •The medicosurgical specialty (field) concerned with such operations. formstransplantations