fruit harvest

Gathering ripe produce

The fruit harvest is the gathering of ripe fruit from trees, vines, or plants, or the yield itself: This year's fruit harvest was exceptional.

Harvest implies both the activity and its result—the collected crop.

The phrase appears in agricultural contexts, seasonal discussions, and metaphorically for any culmination of patient effort.

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baskets · frost protection · horticulture · rainfall patterns · peaches · crates · windfall · farm stand · grapes · strawberries · u-pick farm · ripeness · pollination · pears · hand-picking · bumper crop · crop rotation · shears

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Opposites
agricultural cycle stage

fruit harvestplanting

Placing seeds in earth

sowing · seeding · tree planting · cultivation · pruning

productive outcome

fruit harvestcrop failure

When fields yield nothing

failed harvest · blight · famine · frost damage · poor yield

Family

fruit, harvest

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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G