ripen
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become ripe.
half-ripened
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a word derived from
ripen.
Example Sentences
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He always speaks in a low voice, a voice that sounds like a September breeze rustling through a field of dry, half-ripened corn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crotons are propagated readily by cuttings of half-ripened wood any time in winter or spring.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
Plumbago.—These pretty evergreens will grow in any soil, and can be propagated in September by cuttings of half-ripened wood having a heal, planted in a sandy soil, and kept near the glass in a greenhouse.
From Gardening for the Million by Pink, Alfred
It was like walking between solid walls of vegetation, matted and tangled and bright with half-ripened blackberries.
From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.
Looking eastward or westward, you see either brown foot-hills, or, a little later on, emerald slopes whose vines hang heavy with the half-ripened grapes.
From A Summer in a Canyon by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
