Gather
Gather verb - To catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use.
Usage example: late summer is when we gather the tomatoes and begin canning them for the winter
Plant
Plant verb - To put or set into the ground to grow.
Usage example: I'll plant the marigold seeds in the spring
Common collocations
| bunch | gather bunch | plant bunch |
| information | gather information | plant information |
| items | gather items | plant items |
| flowers | gather flowers | plant flowers |
| Other words: thoughts. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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She misplaces her trust in a plant vendor, resulting in Lila accompanying Armand on a trip to the Yucatan peninsula to gather specimens of the stolen plants.
- Harvest Moon games have rotating seasons The crops you can plant and things you can gather change with them.
Source: It's Always Spring -
Organ Drops: Some of the loot you gather include valuable body parts from some of the monsters, like the hard chitin of giant insects, claws and fangs from beasts, various parts of plant monsters, and so on.
Source: Video Game / Etrian Odyssey
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