harvest
The harvest is the time when you reap what you sow. As a verb, to harvest something means that you pick or gather it. You might harvest your sweet corn late in the summer.
As a noun, harvest means the time of year when crops are ripe and ready to be gathered. The picked crop is also called a harvest: a bumper crop is a plentiful harvest, and a poor harvest is when things didn’t grow as well as expected. As a verb, to harvest something is to gather, trap, or cull it. You can harvest a soybean crop, you can harvest beaver pelts, or you can harvest tissues or organs for transplants.
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the gathering of a ripened crop
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the yield from plants in a single growing season
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the season for gathering crops
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season, time of year
one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
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season, time of year
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the consequence of an effort or activity
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gather, as of natural products
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remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation