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harvest | preharvested |

As a noun harvest

is the third season of the year; autumn; fall.

As a verb harvest

is to bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

As an adjective preharvested is

prior to harvesting; pre-harvest.

harvest

English

(wikipedia harvest)

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
  • The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
  • The process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop.
  • The yield of harvesting, i.e. the gathered crops or fruits.
    • This year's cotton harvest''' was great but the corn '''harvest was disastrous.
  • * 1911 , (Jack London), The Whale Tooth
  • *:The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest' of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the ' harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
  • (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
  • * Fuller
    • The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
  • * Wordsworth
    • the harvest of a quiet eye
  • (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=20 citation , passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}

    Synonyms

    * (season of the year) autumn, fall * (horti- or agricultural yield) crop

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
  • To be occupied bringing in a harvest
    • ''Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation
  • To win, achieve a gain.
    • ''The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21

    Derived terms

    * harvestable * harvestability * harvester * harvest bug * harvest fish * harvest fly * harvest home * harvest louse * harvestman * harvest mite * harvest moon * harvest mouse * harvest queen * harvest spider * harvest time

    preharvested

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Prior to harvesting; pre-harvest
  • * {{quote-book, 1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production citation
    • , passage=Subsequently the temperature of the produce must be maintained at low levels (at or near freezing) and in the presence of high relative humidity in order to maintain a level of quality mirroring that of the preharvested product.}}
  • (medicine) Harvested in advance
  • * {{quote-journal, 2008, date=October 31, Lauren Cahoon, More Than Skin Deep, Science, volume=322, issue=5902 citation
    • , passage=Stem cells from bone marrow that can give rise to new immune cells are taken out from a patient, and then physicians use drugs to purposely obliterate the patient's entire immune system, a strategy called immunoablation. After that, the preharvested stem cells are infused back into the patient, where they can create fresh bone marrow and, it is hoped, a new functioning immune system.}}

    Related terms

    * preharvest * preharvesting * postharvest