translocatedadj.
/ˌtranzlə(ʊ)ˈkeɪtᵻd/, /ˌtrɑːnzlə(ʊ)ˈkeɪtᵻd/, /ˌtranslə(ʊ)ˈkeɪtᵻd/, /ˌtrɑːnslə(ʊ)ˈkeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /trænzˈloʊˌkeɪdᵻd/, /træn(t)sˈloʊˌkeɪdᵻd/ 1.
a. That has moved from one place to another; that has been moved or transferred from one place to another. Now rare.
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1881 Nature 8 Dec. 136/2 The theory which considers the limbs with their girdles to be transformed and translocated gill-branch elements.
1907 Psychol. Rev. 14 365 Although the other images in the displaced field remain visible, it follows that the objective stimulations must be effective in maintaining the vision of their translocated images.
1988 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 14 Nov. 18 There are few such areas within easy access of Sydney where one is not affronted by translocated urban sprawl.
2004 Cultural Survival Q. Summer 11 Areas of rainforest in various stages of disruption..and altered environments used by both local and translocated human populations for settlement, agriculture, infrastructure, and industry.
b. Of a wild animal, bird, etc.: that has been transferred from one place to another, esp. as part of a wildlife conservation programme.
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1957 Condor 59 268 (heading) Translocated golden-crowned sparrows return to winter range.
1962 Copeia No. 1. 208/1 The translocated animals not captured in the trap probably left the water and returned overland to their home area.
2017 express.co.uk (Nexis) 20 Aug. Male ospreys return to their natal sites to breed and, hopefully, this season's translocated birds will arrive back in the spring of 2019.
2. Biology. Transported within a cell or organism, esp. by an active process. Cf. translocation n. 2.
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1916 J. S. Chamberlain Org. Agric. Chem. xiv. 247 In all cases it [sc. the cell wall] is produced by the conversion of the translocated sugars into cellulose.
1945 U.S. Patent 2,390,941 1/1 Another object of importance is to provide a wholly new class of systemic or translocated herbicides.
1987 Plant & Soil 100 157 These solutes serve as the principal translocated forms of nitrogen in xylem.
1999 Science 8 Oct. 291/1 Translocated bacteria enter the lymphatic system and colonize the liver and spleen.
2007 D. Rutkowski & V. Lingappa in B. Lewin et al. Cells iii. 125 Translocated proteins can be exported to the cytosol, where they are ubiquitinated and degraded by the proteasome.
3. Genetics. That has undergone translocation (translocation n. 3); that contains translocated genetic material.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [adjective] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes > transfer > translocation
translocational1905
translocatable1915
translocated1924
1924 T. H. Morgan in E. V. Cowdry Gen. Cytol. 723 The loci in this translocated piece contain the allelomorphs of plexus, brown, blistered, morula, speck, balloon, purploid, and lethal IIa. Any fly that has one end of chromosome II absent dies.
1967 Radiation Res. 32 40 Some of the translocated cells that succeed in giving mature germ cells will induce semisterility in the offspring.
1982 Science 24 Dec. 1321/2 Adams et al. report data indicating that the translocated c-myc gene synthesizes transcripts that differ in size from those produced by the untranslocated gene.
2009 Cereal Res. Communications 37 446 Although the rust and powdery mildew resistance genes are no longer effective, the translocated chromosome will still continue to play significant roles in many wheat breeding programmes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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