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harvester

noun C2
  1. A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop). (dated)
  2. A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
  3. A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
  4. 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.

Plural harvesters

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