preharvestadj.
/priːˈhɑːvᵻst/, U.S. /priˈhɑrvəst/ Occurring before a crop is harvested or gathered.
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preharvest1910
1910 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 73 258 Statements of the progress of crops during growth and pre-harvest estimates of yield have too often been left to non-official investigation.
1951 Jrnl. Chem. Educ. 28 113 We now use plant hormones to..prevent preharvest drop of apples.
2001 I. M. Goklany Precautionary Princ. iii. 32 Conventional (i.e., nonbioengineering) methods could be used to increase net productivity..by..further limiting preharvest losses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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