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1. The gathering of a ripened crop
   "The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting";
   - harvest, harvest home

1. Gather, as of natural products
   "harvest the grapes";
   - reap, glean [archaic]
    
2. 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?"

Derived forms: harvestings

Type of: collect, garner, gather, gathering, pull together, remove, take, take away, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Harvesting