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  • adjective Not harvestable.

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un- +‎ harvestable

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Examples

  • 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.

    Biological diversity in Mesoamerica 2008

  • 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.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Our fall cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower - unharvestable, says Barber.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • 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

  • "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,"

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

  • "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,"

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

  • "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,"

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

  • Since corn has a narrow optimum plant population, unharvestable ears due to stalk and root lodging will have a large impact on yield.

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

  • 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.

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2008

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