harvest
harvest Lexical Profile
harvest Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The process or season of gathering in ripened crops from the fields.
"The farmers worked long hours into the evening to complete the autumn harvest before the first frost."
The quantity or yield of crops gathered in a single season.
"Ideal weather conditions throughout the summer resulted in a record wheat harvest this year."
The product, reward, or consequence of any sustained effort or series of actions.
"The research team is now enjoying a rich harvest of scientific discoveries after years of patient experimentation."
• verb
To gather or reap a ripened crop from the fields.
"Local growers harvest the apples by hand in late September to avoid bruising the fruit."
To catch, hunt, or collect wild animals, fish, or natural resources for human use or consumption.
"Coastal communities sustainably harvest kelp and shellfish from the cold ocean waters."
To remove organs, tissue, or cells from a donor for medical transplantation or scientific research, or to collect large amounts of data automatically.
"Surgeons were able to harvest healthy stem cells from the donor for the bone marrow transplant."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English hærfest, meaning 'autumn' or 'harvest-time', from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz; it is distantly related to Latin carpere ('to pluck') and Ancient Greek karpos ('fruit').