harvesting

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harvesting

noun harvestings

  1. countable, uncountable The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.
  2. broadly, countable, uncountable The gathering of any resource. American regulations at the time prohibited organ harvesting from brain-dead patients if their hearts were still beating.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of harvest

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Closest in meaning: harvest home, crop, farm, reaping, cup, goblet, slaughter, forestry, timber, stumpage, logging, picking, hunting, hunt, mining, coupe

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noun the gathering of a mature crop

Españolrecolección, cosecha
日本語収納 shūnō, 収穫 shūkaku
Portuguêsceifa
Italianoraccolta, mietitura

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@misc{harvesting_2026,
  title = {harvesting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/harvesting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}