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transhume

transhume verb: to migrate.

Verb

transhume (third-person singular simple present transhumes, present participle transhuming, simple past and past participle transhumed)

  1. (intransitive) To migrate.
    • Animals in good condition and not subjected to physical stress (such as having to transhume or walk far between pastures and waterpoints) usually suffer considerably less than animals on a poor nutritional level and having to expend much physical energy.1990, M. M. H. Sewell, D. W. Brocklesby, Handbook on Animal Diseases in the Tropics, page 46

Forms of transhume

third-person singular presenttranshumes
present participletranshuming
past participletranshumed
pasttranshumed

Questions about transhume

What does transhume mean?
Transhume means to migrate.
What part of speech is transhume?
Transhume is a verb.
What is the past tense of transhume?
The past tense of transhume is transhumed.

Words near transhume in the dictionary

  1. transhumanizes
  2. transhumanizing
  3. transhumans
  4. transhumant
  5. transhumants
  6. transhume
  7. transhumed
  8. transhumeral
  9. transhumes
  10. transhuming
  11. transhydrogenase

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