ripening
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈraɪpənɪŋ/
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maduración
- The warmth and the gas will help to stimulate the ripening process in fruits.
- slow ripening
- fruit ripening
- ripening process
Do not believe the red mulch tomato ripening myth is bogus.
- Do not believe the red mulch tomato ripening myth is bogus.
- Once that plant is dead, that is when the ripening process finishes.
Examples
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In coffee fields, medflies lay their eggs in ripening, cherrylike fruits that house the coffee beans.
Academic text (2000) -
"Low oxygen," explains Shellie, "puts fruit in a slow-ripening, sleeping state while it helps kill fruit flies."
Academic text (1998) -
Once that plant is dead, that is when the ripening process finishes.
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Grapes need the heat of summer, which also comes late, to begin the ripening process.
Fiction book (1990) -
Whichever way you want to look at it, ripening is part of the process of decomposing!
Blog text (30) -
One disorder, tomato irregular ripening, makes the fruit worthless.
Academic text (1997) -
Goals include preventing, delaying, or promoting ripening and abscission.
Academic text (1996) -
Their chief invited him in, explaining that the juicy little siripia fruits were ripening and they were weaving baskets to collect them.
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Plant geneticist Gene Galletta and plant pathologist Barbara Smith evaluate Chandler strawberries for growth and ripening characteristics.
Academic text (1997) -
By ripening in mid-August, these grapes handily fill a gap between the early-ripening Flame Seedless and the late-ripening Crimson Seedless.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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5.3
Becoming fully grown and developed, for example in people or wine
Compounds
- Specialized
A plant or fruit that becomes ripe late in the growing season, often in fall
How Mellow
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ripening comes from the word ripe, which means 'fully grown' or 'ready to eat', plus the part -ing that shows an action or 'process'. So ripening means the process of becoming ready to eat, like fruit getting sweet and soft.