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- adjective Not
harvestable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aside from riparian areas and adjacent areas that could be reached by oxen, most forests had remained intact largely because they were unharvestable with the available technology.
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He said if wind and rain hit the cotton when it's ready for harvest, it will knock the cotton to the ground, and make it unharvestable.
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Our fall cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower - unharvestable, says Barber.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Second, he crafted so-called dwarf wheat varieties, which were smaller than the old shoulder-high varieties that bent in the wind and touched the ground thereby becoming unharvestable; the new waist or knee-high dwarfs stayed erect and held up huge loads of grain.
Forbes.com: News Henry I. Miller 2012
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"There has been very little harvest progress in the last fortnight because of continual wet weather and I would suspect that a lot of that wheat would be unharvestable,"
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"There has been very little harvest progress in the last fortnight because of continual wet weather and I would suspect that a lot of that wheat would be unharvestable,"
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"There has been very little harvest progress in the last fortnight because of continual wet weather and I would suspect that a lot of that wheat would be unharvestable,"
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Since corn has a narrow optimum plant population, unharvestable ears due to stalk and root lodging will have a large impact on yield.
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An untreated silicon solar cell only absorbs 67.4 percent of sunlight shone upon it - meaning that nearly one-third of that sunlight is reflected away and thus unharvestable.
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