[
UK
/hˈɑːvɪst/
]
[ US /ˈhɑɹvəst/ ]
[ US /ˈhɑɹvəst/ ]
NOUN
- the season for gathering crops
- the gathering of a ripened crop
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the consequence of an effort or activity
a harvest of love
they gathered a harvest of examples - the yield from plants in a single growing season
VERB
-
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? -
gather, as of natural products
harvest the grapes
How To Use harvest In A Sentence
- The early commercial pea crops weren't sown in rows like home gardens, but were planted over the whole paddock and required a great deal of bending over to harvest the sweet green pods.
- Another harvest has failed, and international aid agencies warn of the threat of mass starvation.
- For winemakers in the Rhone, 2002 was a disastrous year, with violent storms and huge rainfall during the harvest.
- Effects of bagging on loquat fruit appearance, postharvest characteristics and quality were studied.
- Barmbrack (currant tea bread) is a celebration of chestnuts and walnut harvests. Times, Sunday Times
- Shrimp, crab, and a variety of fish are harvested from the ocean.
- Aggie and her husband Pat were farming people who tilled the land, harvested the crops and raised livestock.
- Studies in the past showed that subsoiling clay soil in the spring does not improve cotton harvests.
- The failure of the monsoon would destroy harvests on which 1000 million people rely.
- As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.
