harvesting

Etymology

noun

  1. (agriculture) The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.
  2. (by extension) The gathering of any resource.
    American regulations at the time prohibited organ harvesting from brain-dead patients if their hearts were still beating. 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, page 187

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of harvest

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