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# unripe

«unripe» in Mova's school dictionary: **not ready to eat yet: an unripe banana is still green** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (unripe)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unripe means not ready to eat yet: an unripe banana is still green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#m1)

2) Unripe fruit is often hard and sour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: the part of fruit not yet ripe, taken from the total: ripe = total − unripe. Science: fruit ripens over time; some fruit ripens after picking. Health: unripe fruit can give you a tummy ache.

### examples

- Of 30 tomatoes, 8 are unripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x1)
- She picked only the ripe apples and left 5 unripe ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x2)
- A third of the bananas are unripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x3)
- How many are not unripe? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x4)
- Unripe strawberries are white or green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x5)
- Put unripe pears in a paper bag to ripen them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x6)
- Don't eat unripe plums; they are sour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x7)
- The persimmon is as hard as stone when it is unripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unripe/#x8)

### note

Prefix un- (not) + ripe. Splits a set: ripe = total − unripe. Trap: «not unripe» means ripe.

### In the corpora

- [Unripe fruit is more acidic; as fruit ripens, sugar goes up and acid goes down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/15-acids-in-the-kitchen/22/)
- [He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.401/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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