transhumance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The seasonal movement of grazing livestock (especially cattle, sheep, or goats) to new pastures which may be quite distant; alpine and nonalpine versions of such movement exist. countable,uncountable
    — There are rites of spring in the mountains, and this week I followed the transhumance, the annual movement of cattle, from their lower valley winter quarters up to the higher pastures.

词形变化

transhumances plural

词源

Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).
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