[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

harvesting \har"vesting\,
   a.  n., from harvest, v. t.
   1913 webster

   harvesting ant zool., any species of ant which gathers
      and stores up seeds for food. many species are known.
      1913 webster

   note: the species found in southern europe and palestine are
         aphenogaster structor and aphenogaster barbara;
         that of texas, called agricultural ant, is
         pogonomyrmex barbatus or myrmica molifaciens; that
         of florida is pogonomyrmex crudelis. see
         agricultural ant, under agricultural.
         1913 webster
see also:
harvest harvesting ant aphenogaster structor aphenogaster barbara agricultural ant pogonomyrmex barbatus 
myrmica molifaciens pogonomyrmex crudelis agricultural ant agricultural 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

harvest \har"vest\, v. t. imp.  p. p. harvested; p. pr. 
   vb. n. harvesting.
   to reap or gather, as any crop.
   1913 webster
see also:
harvested harvesting 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

harvesting
     n : the gathering of a ripened crop syn: harvest, harvest
         home
see also:
harvest harvest home 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

49 moby thesaurus words for "harvesting":
   architecture, assembly, building, casting, composition,
   construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crop,
   cropping, cultivation, cutting, devising, elaboration, erection,
   extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming,
   formulation, framing, gathering, gleaning, growing, handicraft,
   handiwork, harvest, ingathering, machining, making, manufacture,
   manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, nutting, prefabrication,
   preparation, processing, producing, raising, reaping, refining,
   shaping, smelting, workmanship

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