transplantation

noun

Etymology: From Middle French transplantation, from transplanter (“to transplant”) + -ation (suffix indicating an action or process).

1. A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant.
2. A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant.
3. 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.”

4. The resettlement of a group of people.