Definition of "explant" []

• To remove (living tissue) from the natural site of growth and place in a medium for culture. (verb-transitive)
• Explanted tissue. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Paul explant, and I are going to make the soup tonight in New Orleans."
• "Lettuce and cabbage are examples of vegetable crops in which adventitious plantlets have originated directly from the primary explant."
• ""If (they) tell us that as a precautionary measure it would be better to explant (remove the implants from) women, we'll do it too," he said."