transportal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act or process of carrying something from one place to another; transport or conveyance; now rare

   Hooks on the seeds assist their transportal in the fur of passing animals.

A noun formed from transport + the action-noun suffix -al, on the pattern of arrival and removal. Transport comes through French from Latin transportare, 'to carry across,' combining trans- ('across') with portare ('to carry'). Transportal was once used in scientific and general prose but is now rare.

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