harvester
Americannoun
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a person who harvests; reaper.
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any of various farm machines for harvesting field crops.
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an orange-brown butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, the larvae of which are predacious on aphids.
noun
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a person who harvests
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a harvesting machine, esp a combine harvester
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Origin of harvester
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He said he would hang on until next week to cut his wheat, for fear the combine harvester would spark a fire in the parched crop.
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
"Sometimes the wheat's too dry, so the grain is too small and risks being thrown out with the straw" by the combine harvester, said Franck Laborde, FNSEA's head of climate risk.
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
Mills farms 4,000 acres with five tractors and a harvester.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
Over several days, Moffett observed at least 90 harvester ants interacting with the smaller cone ants, which belong to an undescribed species in the genus Dorymyrmex.
From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026
At last Ton-Ton stretched and smiled as though he’d had a fine meal.“I, uh, I won’t tell anyone why we’re late,” he said.“I’ll say the harvester broke down.”
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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