transhumant
- adjective
- /trænˈʃuːmənt/
- Specialized
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transhumante
- Many cultures have adapted transhumant practices to optimize grazing land across seasons.
- transhumant sheep
- transhumant flocks
- transhumant sheep numbers
Examples
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We emphasize that food for transhumant livestock is inexpensive, for in both summer and winter the sheep graze mainly on common lands.
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About 5 million sheep were involved in transhumant movements in the mid-1700s, but transhumance started to decay in the nineteenth century and almost disappeared in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Preconquest Pai were, indeed, transhumant.
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Between the eleventh century and the nineteenth century, the number of transhumant sheep was large.
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The decline of transhumant sheep numbers has had important ecological implications, as herders stopped using canadas and summer and winter pastures.
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In 1985, fieldwork verified that few flocks were transhumant, the total being fewer than 25,000 sheep (Lasanta Martinez 1989).
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In January/February and May/June 2005, we conducted a census of transhumant sheep in the Central Pyrenees of the Ebro Valley gradient in order to tabulate the funds that farmers receive for practicing transhumance.
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The herders follow a transhumant lifestyle, moving their livestock to higher pastures during the summer.
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In regions with harsh winters, transhumant livestock movement is essential for sustainable farming.
Synonyms
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4.9
People who move from place to place instead of living in one home
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3.7
Moving regularly from place to place, often for seasonal work
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5.0
People who move to different places to find work at certain times of the year
Antonyms
How Migratory
Surface Forms
Morphology
transhumant = transhumance (opaque) = trans + hum + ant
The technical noun 'transhumance' is not familiar to typical learners and the element 'hum' (soil/ground) is not a productive English morpheme, so the relation is not derivable by a B1 learner.
Etymology
Transhumant comes from the Latin parts trans- 'across' and humus 'ground', so it literally means moving 'across the land'. That's why transhumant describes people or animals who move seasonally between low and high pastures to graze.