Definition of Transhumants

1. transhumant [n] - See also: transhumant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transhumants

transhipments
transhipped
transhipping
tranships
transhistorical
transhistoricity
transhuman
transhumance
transhumances
transhumanism
transhumanist
transhumanists
transhumanize
transhumans
transhumant
transhumants (current term)
transhumeral
transhydrogenase
transience
transiences
transiencies
transiency
transient
transient acantholytic dermatosis
transient albuminuria
transient global amnesia
transient ischaemic attack
transient ischemic attack

Literary usage of Transhumants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Managing Resources in Erratic Environments: An Analysis of Pastoralist by Nancy McCarthy, Celine Dutilly-Diane (2004)
"Increasing the number of transhumants using community pastures leads to greater stock densities, and more land allocated to crops ..."

2. How Third World Rural Households Adapt to Dietary Energy Stress: The by Philip Payne, Michael Lipton (1994)
"For instance, groups that have long been transhumants are not likely to contain many individuals whose gene set inhibits them from metabolizing lactose. ..."

3. British Farmer's Magazine (1874)
"These flocks of Spanish Merinos were transhumants—that is to say, they were led to pasture iu summer upon the mountain! ; and if that fine breed has been ..."

4. Histoire naturelle des mammifères: avec l'indication de leurs moeurs, et de by Paul Gervais (1855)
"C'est elle qui forme la très-grande majorité des troupeaux espagnols, qui sont transhumants, c'est-à-dire que l'on fait voyager par troupeaux considérables, ..."

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