harvester

English

A potato harvester

A harvester (sense 1) depicted on a postage stamp

a harvester butterfly

Etymology

From harvest +‎ -er.

Noun

harvester (plural harvesters)

2. (dated) A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

   Hypernym: person

   Hyponym: harvestman

4. A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

   Hyponyms: combine harvester, combine

   Coordinate term: harvestman

6. (forestry) A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
8. (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
10. 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.
12. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
14. (Ireland) A finnock (a young sea trout).

Derived terms

• harvester-thresher
• harvester ant
• harvester butterfly
• combine harvester

Translations

person who gathers the harvest

• Arabic: حَصَّاد m (ḥaṣṣād)
• Bulgarian: жътвар m (žǎtvar)
• Catalan: colliter m
• Finnish: sadonkorjaaja
• French: moissonneur (fr) m, moissonneuse (fr) f
• Gallo: faouchou m
• German: Erntehelfer (de) m, Erntehelferin (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: θεριστής m (theristḗs)

• Irish: buainteoir m, fómharaí m
• Italian: mietitore (it), raccoglitore (it), vendemmiatore, falciatore (it)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pale (ku) m or f

• Latin: messor m
• Macedonian: же́твар (mk) m (žétvar), же́тварка f (žétvarka)
• Russian: жнец (ru) m (žnec), жни́ца (ru) f (žníca)
• Volapük: klopan, hiklopan (male), jiklopan (female)

machine that harvests

• Arabic: حَصَّادَة f (ḥaṣṣāda)
• Bulgarian: жътварка f (žǎtvarka)
• Catalan: recol·lectora f
• Finnish: elonkorjuukone
• French: moissonneuse (fr) f
• German: Ernter m, Vollernter m
• Hungarian: aratógép (hu)
• Irish: buainteoir m
• Italian: mietitrice (it) f, fienatrice f
• Macedonian: же́тварка f (žétvarka)
• Norman: avouôteux m, dgèrbeux m, scieux m
• Portuguese: ceifeira (pt) f, gadanheira (pt) f, segadeira (pt) f
• Russian: жне́йка (ru) f (žnéjka), жа́тка (ru) f (žátka)
• Spanish: cosechadora (es) f
• Turkish: biçerdöver (tr)
• Welsh: cynaeafydd m

forestry machine

• Finnish: harvesteri (fi)

See also

(person or machine):

• farmer
• farmhand
• farmworker
• gatherer
• gleaner
• laborer, labourer
• manual laborer, manual labourer
• picker
• reaper
• worker

Anagrams

• Everharts, reharvest