adjective
- harvested excessively or beyond sustainable levels
Usage: environmental science; agriculture
Examples
- The overharvested forest showed signs of severe ecological damage.
- Many fish populations have become overharvested due to commercial fishing.
- The overharvested farmland could no longer support healthy crop growth.
- Scientists warned that the overharvested species might face extinction.
- Regulations were implemented to prevent overharvested areas from further decline.
- The overharvested timber region required decades to recover.