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# translocate

«translocate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move something from one place to another, especially…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (translocate, translocates, translocated, translocating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal, science) To translocate is to move something from one place to another, especially to move wild animals or plants to a new home to keep them safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#m1)

2) (biology) In plants, to translocate is to carry food, such as sugar, through the stem from the leaves to other parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Mainly in science and conservation: rangers translocate rhinos, kiwis or beavers to safer places so they can breed. In plant biology, sugars are translocated through tubes called phloem. A formal word; in everyday talk people say «move» or «relocate».

### examples

- Rangers translocated twenty rhinos to a safer park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#x1)
- Scientists plan to translocate the rare frogs to a new pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#x2)
- Kiwi chicks are sometimes translocated to islands without predators. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#x3)
- Plants translocate sugar from their leaves to their roots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#x4)
- Beavers were translocated to Scotland to bring them back to the rivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#x5)
- The team must check the new home before they translocate the birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#x6)

### note

Regular verb: «translocated», «translocating». The noun is «translocation». Formal and scientific; «relocate» is the more common everyday word.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «translocate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.