What is "harvesting"

Usage examples of "harvesting".

Stephanie would begin the process of harvesting the multipotential stem cells from the forming blastocysts, but until then she would have some free time.

Now, looking out at the calm Caladan seas and watching the boats return from a day of harvesting kelp and fat butterfish, Vor sat with his eager young adjutant, Abulurd Butler, youngest son of Quentin Vigar and Wandra Butler.

Caladan seas and watching the boats return from a day of harvesting kelp and fat butterfish, Vor sat with his eager young adjutant, Abulurd Butler, youngest son of Quentin Vigar and Wandra Butler.

The more bored Father became with life on the farm, the more fervently Mother threw herself into every aspect of it: the vegetable garden, the flower garden, the apple orchard, the peach and cherry orchard, the maple trees and the squirrels in them, the welfare of the livestock, the pigs and chickens, the maintenance of the heavy machinery, barns, tools, the harvesting of corn and alfalfa, the making of butter and ice cream, the curing of beef and bacon, and even the lives of Andrew Tomashek, the Czechoslovakian farmer, and his eleven children.

There was a family harvesting kas, a boatman pulling his craft up through some rapids, a village perched on a hill and three more.

The study of plants and their uses was the lifework of most Ithorians, and the greatest of the students became priests who guided others, prohibiting the people from harvesting plants that could think or feel.

Father Looney was always impatient to get away as soon as mass was over, so he never stood outside the entrance, harvesting compliments and bestowing blessings.

In a moment, the harvesting party had exploded into a full-fledged food fight, fallen oranges zinging past and hitting people, trees, the ground, with a liquid sploosh.

Way down the coast a couple of native piroques were in the rice fields, harvesting.

The harvesting that Mike was engaged in would have been done by a team of six, at least, in preindustrial times.

Schools of fish darted beneath the boat, and Marie saw that on the next lagoon over, spirulina harvesting was taking place.

Up here, I could feel the heat from the sun, could lose myself in the complex ticktock of photosynthesis, rejoice in the harvesting of energy.

But she did spend over half the year in the bush, running a trapline in the winter, harvesting medicines, that kind of thing.

The Ithorians harvested plants from the biospheres of the ships, but particularly on their huge groundships, they also harvested from the abundant forests of Ithor-taking nourishment from fruits and grains, creating medicines from saps and pollens, using plant fibers to create fabrics and ultrastrong porcelains, harvesting minerals and energy from otherwise unusable roots and stems.

Many years of harvesting trees for lumber had given the green glades a sunlit airiness not found in the deep haunts of the southern forest.