harvester

English

Etymology

From harvest +‎ -er.

Noun

harvester (plural harvesters)

  1. (dated) A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
    Hypernym: person
    Hyponym: harvestman
  2. A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
    Hyponyms: combine harvester, combine
    Coordinate term: harvestman
  3. (forestry) A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
  4. (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
  5. A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.
  6. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
  7. (Ireland) A finnock (a young sea trout).

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