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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HARVESTING

ppr. Reaping and collecting, as ripe corn and other fruits.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HARVESTING

HARVESTING Har "vest *ing, a. & n.

 

Defn:, from Harvest, v. t. Harvesting ant (Zoöl.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.

 

Note: The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are Aphenogaster structor and A. barbara; that of Texas, called agricultural ant, is Pogonomyrmex barbatus or Myrmica molifaciens; that of Florida is P. crudelis. See Agricultural ant, under Agricultural.