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# translocate

verb (translocate, translocates, translocated, translocating)

«translocate» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#x1)
- Scientists plan to translocate the rare frogs to a new pond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#x2)
- Kiwi chicks are sometimes translocated to islands without predators. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/#x3)
- Plants translocate sugar from their leaves to their roots. [tree →](https://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://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «translocate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translocate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«translocate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/translocate.html) on Mova free.