Usually means: Seasonal movement of livestock, grazing.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word transhumance:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. transhumance: Merriam-Webster
  2. transhumance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transhumance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. transhumance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. transhumance: Wiktionary
  6. transhumance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. transhumance: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. transhumance: Dictionary.com
  9. Transhumance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. transhumance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transhumance: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  4. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (transhumance)

▸ noun:  The seasonal movement of people, with their cattle or other grazing animals, to new pastures which may be quite distant.

Similar:
drove, shepherding, swineherding, horde, raik, shepherdism, cattle drive, sheepherding, pasturing, cattle-drive, more...

Phrases:
Alpine transhumance, more...

Adjectives:
seasonal, pastoral, distance, annual, traditional, scale, local, vertical, extensive, normal, range

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Similar:
drove, shepherding, swineherding, horde, raik, shepherdism, cattle drive, sheepherding, pasturing, cattle-drive, more...

Phrases:
Alpine transhumance, more...

Adjectives:
seasonal, pastoral, distance, annual, traditional, scale, local, vertical, extensive, normal, range



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