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Noun: harvest  haa(r)-vist
  1. The gathering of a ripened crop
    "The farmers celebrated the harvest home with a festive dinner";
    - harvesting, harvest home
     
  2. The yield from plants in a single growing season
    "They celebrated after bringing in the harvest";
    - crop
     
  3. The season for gathering crops
    "During harvest time, the entire community came together to bring in the wheat";
    - harvest time
     
  4. The consequence of an effort or activity
    "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love"
Verb: harvest  haa(r)-vist
  1. Gather, as of natural products
    "harvest the grapes"; "The farmers reaped the wheat harvest";
    - reap, glean [archaic]
     
  2. Remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation
    "Should one harvest organs from dead people for transplants?"
     
  3. Gather or collect data or information
    "The company harvests user data from their website"

Derived forms: harvested, harvests, harvesting

Type of: collect, consequence, effect, event, garner, gather, gathering, issue, outcome, output, pull together, remove, result, season, take, take away, time of year, upshot, withdraw, yield

Part of: agriculture, farming, husbandry

Encyclopedia: Harvest, Alabama