# harvester

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #34,098

## Definitions
1. A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
2. A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
3. A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
4. A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
5. A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.
6. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
7. A finnock (a young sea trout).

## Etymology
From harvest + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **harvest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/harvest-vs-harvester)

## Common misspellings (14)
`ahrvester`, `harevster`, `harrvester`, `harvesetr`, `harvesster`, `harvesterr`, `harvestre`, `harvestter`, `harvetser`, `harvseter`, `harvvester`, `havrester`, `hharvester`, `hravester`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/harvester