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transhumant

Variant of transhumance

noun

seasonal and alternating movement of livestock, together with the persons who tend the herds, between two regions, as lowlands and highlands

Origin: Fr < transhumer, to practice transhumance < Sp trashumar < tras-, trans- (< L, trans-) + L humus, earth: see humus

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transhumant adjective

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