a. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] Capable of being transplanted.
1656. in P. H. Hore, Hist. Wexford (1911), VI. 508. What popish proprietors of lands Transplantable, do yet remain untransplanted.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 21. Cabbage-plants and celery, and all transplantable things.
1829. Southey, Sir T. More (1831), II. 89. Old forms of government are not transplantable into new countries.
Hence Transplantability, capability of being transplanted.
1811. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XXXI. 448. The transplantability of the fossils.
1867. T. Archer, in Macfarlane, Mem., vii. 185. Some plants are famed for transplantibility.
