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# ripeness

«ripeness» in Mova's school dictionary: **The state of fruit, vegetables or grain being fully grown…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ripeness — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The state of fruit, vegetables or grain being fully grown and ready to eat or pick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripeness/#m1)

2) Being fully developed or ready: "the ripeness of time". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripeness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and science lessons, ripeness is checked by colour, smell and softness: a ripe banana is yellow, an unripe one green. Ripening is a chemical change; some fruits ripen faster near bananas because of a gas called ethylene. Phrases: at the peak of ripeness, check for ripeness.

### examples

- Check the ripeness of an avocado by gently pressing it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripeness/#x1)
- The strawberries were picked at full ripeness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripeness/#x2)
- You can tell the ripeness of a banana by its colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripeness/#x3)
- The farmer waited for the wheat to reach ripeness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripeness/#x4)
- The sweet smell showed the melon's ripeness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripeness/#x5)
- In science we recorded the ripeness of pears each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripeness/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. From "ripe" + -ness. Opposite: unripeness. "Overripe" means too ripe.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ripeness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripeness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.