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
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 Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
In one of these bedrooms I counted twenty-five boxes of lemons, besides great bunches of half-ripened bananas.
From White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Louis Albert Banks
The sole return of157 their labors for the season was a few ears of half-ripened barley which the women saved and carried home in their aprons.
From The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba by George Bryce
They do this to hickory nuts, and apparently are very fond of the half-ripened nuts.
From Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Carl Weschcke
