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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]harvester (plural harvesters)
- (dated) A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
- A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
- (forestry) A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees
- (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
- A North American butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America
- Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
- (Ireland) finnock (a young sea trout)
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Derived terms
[edit]- harvester-thresher
- harvester ant
- harvester butterfly
- combine harvester (common short form: combine)
Translations
[edit]person who gathers the harvest
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machine that harvests
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forestry machine
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