Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of planting again.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act of planting again; a replanting.

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  • noun replanting

Etymologies

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re- +‎ plantation

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Examples

  • Younger the first to transplant the teeth of man in the jaws of man; the initial operation should be called replantation, as it was merely the replacement of a tooth in a socket from which it had accidentally or intentionally been removed.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • John Hunter was the first to perform the implantation of teeth; and Younger the first to transplant the teeth of man in the jaws of man; the initial operation should be called replantation, as it was merely the replacement of a tooth in a socket from which it had accidentally or intentionally been removed.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Every year our board-certified surgeons perform approximately 300 procedures including microvascular surgery and replantation.

    Hand clinic: treatment of deformities, conditions, injuries 2010

  • Aesthetic pleasure and most important replantation.

    GROW AND SAVE TREES 2009

  • There is a general recognition of the importance of coastal vegetation in controlling beach erosion and its upkeep and replantation is promoted.

    Sub-regional scenarios for Africa's future~ Western Indian Ocean islands 2008

  • Chris Hani-Baragwanath, the biggest in Africa, was the first to successfully do a hand replantation in 1976.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • I bring the firstfruits of my replantation which the royal favour indulged me by the intercession of your honour, when I had been rooted up.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • During the last seven years I have performed a large number of experiments in the replantation and transplantation of organs, in the course of which the technique relating thereto has been thoroughly worked out.

    Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • Ten months after the replantation of a kidney both the normal and the replanted organs were examined.

    Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • Institute, where I was able to make a systematic study of the results of replantation and transplantation of the kidney.

    Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967

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