1. The gathering of a ripened crop
   "The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting";
   - harvest, harvest home

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: harvestings

Type of: collect, garner, gather, gathering, pull together, remove, take, take away, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Harvesting