Harvest (Verb)
Meaning 1
Remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; "Should one harvest organs from dead people for transplants?".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- Surgeons harvest tissues from donors to help repair damaged hearts and livers in patients.
- The medical team was trained to carefully harvest organs from deceased individuals for transplantation.
- Researchers often harvest stem cells from bone marrow for use in laboratory experiments.
- The doctor explained that to save her sister's life, they had to harvest her kidney for the transplant operation.
- The ethics committee debated whether it was morally right to harvest organs from brain-dead patients.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
Gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- We're planning to harvest the wheat next week when it's fully ripe.
- The farmer will harvest the apples in the fall.
- They harvest seaweed from the ocean to sell in the markets.
- In the spring, the family harvests maple syrup from the trees.
- The villagers harvest crops from their fields every day during the summer months.