replant

UK: /ˈriːˈplɑːnt/ US: (rē plant′, -plänt′)

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re•plant  (rē plant′, -plänt′), v.t. 

1. Botany to plant again.
2. Botany to cover again with plants, sow with seeds, etc.:
   After the drought, we had to replant the south lawn.
3. Surgery, Botany to transfer (a plant) from one soil or container to another.
4. Surgery to reattach, as a severed arm, finger, or toe, esp. with the use of microsurgery to reconnect nerves and blood vessels.

• 1565–75; re- + plant

re•plan•ta•tion  (rē′plan tā′shən), n.