harvest

Harvest is the crop that has ripened in a season, the season when the crop is ripe or the amount of the crop that is ripe. (noun)

Harvest means to gather a crop. (verb)

An example of harvest is picking tomatoes off the vine.

See harvest in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the time of the year when matured grain, fruit, vegetables, etc. are reaped and gathered in
a season's yield of grain, fruit, etc. when gathered in or ready to be gathered in; crop
the gathering in of a crop
the outcome or consequence of any effort or series of events: the tyrant's harvest of hate

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to gather in (a crop, etc.)
to gather the crop from (a field)
to catch, shoot, trap, etc. (fish or game), usually in an intensive, systematic way, as for commercial purposes
to get (something) as the result of an action or effort
to remove (body parts) for transplantation

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See harvest in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(härˈvĭst)

noun

The act or process of gathering a crop.
a. The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.
b. The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.
c. The time or season of such gathering.
The result or consequence of an activity.

verb har·vest·ed, har·vest·ing, har·vests

verb, transitive

a. To gather (a crop).
b. To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.
c. To extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation: harvested bone marrow.
To gather a crop from.
To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action). See Synonyms at reap.

verb, intransitive

To gather a crop.

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