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translocate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To displace, or move from one place to another. 2 (context transitive of a chromosomal segment English) To cause to undergo translocation.

WordNet
translocate
  1. v. transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position

  2. move from one place to another, especially of wild animals; "The endangered turtles were translocated to a safe environment"

Usage examples of "translocate".

Pilgrim broke her wrist, and Querida got us all fined by translocating straight home and refusing to come back.

In the second stage, growth ceased, carbohydrates translocated to the roots, and amounts of abscisic acid grew in some leaves until they fell off.

Then I translocated him to a spot several hundred yards out beyond the walls of the Citadel.

For all I knew, I translocated myself, and that's very dangerous out there in the mountains.

Dumik had rather shamefacedly translocated a sizable stack of driftwood in from various beaches here and there on the reef.

Durnik had rather shamefacedly translocated a sizable stack of driftwood in from various beaches here and there on the reef.

Although any one of them could have translocated Ibth's body into the grotto, the four sorcerers chose instead to carry it to its final resting place in a ceremony as old as mankind.

I began to weigh my chances of translocating back in when a bubble appeared.

Several eunuchs tried to block my way, but that stopped when I started translocating them in all directions.