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Harvesting definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

H`ARVESTING, ppr. Reaping and collecting, as ripe corn and other fruits.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the gathering of a ripened crop [syn: harvest, harvesting, harvest home]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Harvest Har"vest, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.] To reap or gather, as any crop.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Harvesting Har"vest*ing, a. & n., from Harvest, v. t. Harvesting ant (Zo["o]l.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known. Note: The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are Aphenogaster structor and A. barbara; that of Texas, called agricultural ant, is Pogonomyrmex barbatus or Myrmica molifaciens; that of Florida is P. crudelis. See Agricultural ant, under Agricultural.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see harvest

Moby Thesaurus

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