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will be ripening
  • future progressive of ripen.

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The Blue Squirrel ascends the tree and whistles, The plants will be growing and the fruit will be ripening, And when it is ripe it falls to the ground.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl