ripen

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I have ripened Kru fruit after only 6 weeks hanging time.

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cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"

verb

grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ripen.

verb

cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"

verb

grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"

Example sentences

I have ripened Kru fruit after only 6 weeks hanging time.

Mature bananas may be picked green and will ripen off of the tree.

Eventually the rest will ripen on the “tree”.

In nature, different fruits ripen at different times.

Rotting fruits release ethylene gas which is a ripening agent.

This site has a lot of info about ripeness and growing bananas in general.

It's best to eat the bananas when they're still a little green; as they ripen their glycemic index increases.

Value investors only, because talent takes time to ripen.

Bananas are an exception because they are actually best picked green and allowed to ripen off the tree.

The karma that would usually ripen over 2 years is, instead, experienced in 12 hours.

However, my first bunch of Saba fruit required 11 months on the tree before ripening.>Color change is evidence of ripening.

Maybe this is the reason why programming genius may show at an early age, whereas software design genius tends to take more time to ripen.

Ethelyene gas is naturally produced by tomatoes and other fruits that ripen after picking.

In a supermarket, this gas is given in much higher doses than would happen in nature, accelerating the ripening process.

In nature, ripening happens relatively slowly because the gas is excreted into the open air.

* any sort of way to improve our picking logistics -- doing weekly picks from many trees that all ripen at slightly different times without driving all over the city is hard.

The metaphor might have been a little over-the-top but I support this sort of creativity in blog posts, if only because it can ripen into something much more aesthetically pleasing.

Of course, to get Oranges up to Sweden, they need to be picked early, and they get to ripen in the back of a truck...And then we have the modern expectation of being able to get anything out-of-season, I'm sure that also causes farmers to pick breeds that grow well, but taste less.