adjective
definition
Not ripe.
example
unripe fruit
definition
Developing too early; premature.
Examples of unripe in a Sentence
The acid may also be prepared from the juice of unripe gooseberries.
It has also been noted that the sprouting of the eyes of the potato may be accelerated if, while still unripe, it is taken up and exposed for some weeks to the influence of a scorching sun.
Ethylene succinic acid occurs in amber, in various resins and lignites, in fossilized wood, in many members of the natural orders of Papaveraceae and Compositae, in unripe grapes, urine and blood.
The common juniper is official in the British pharmacopoeia and in that of the United States, yielding the oil of juniper, a powerful diuretic, distilled from the unripe fruits.
Dextro-tartaric acid occurs in the free state or as the potassium or calcium salt in grape juice and in various unripe fruits.
Exposure to cold after heat, the use of unripe fruit, and intemperance in eating and drinking should be forbidden; and the utmost care taken as to the quality of the food and drinking water.
It will fall of itself when ripe, but if picked unripe the apple is spoiled, the tree is harmed, and your teeth are set on edge.
It is extensively grown throughout India, both for the ripe grain and for use of the unripe cob as a green vegetable.
The mycelium spreads through the green parts of the plant, attacking the leaves, twigs and unripe grapes.
Thomas Dickson of Edinburgh long ago observed that the most healthy and productive crop was to be obtained by planting unripe tubers, and proposed this as a preventive of the disease called the "curl," which sometimes attacks the young stems, causing them and also the leaves to become crumpled, and few or no tubers to be produced; in this connexion it is interesting to note that Scottish and Irish seed potatoes give a larger yield than English, probably on account of their being less matured.
We chewed on last season 's dates and miniature unripe bananas.
Gram is largely cultivated in the East, where the seeds are eaten raw or cooked in various ways, both in their ripe and unripe condition, and when roasted and ground subserve the same purposes as ordinary flour.
The female lays an egg in the unripe nut, on the kernel of which the larva subsists till September, when it bores its way through the shell, and enters the earth, to undergo transformation into a chrysalis in the ensuing spring.
Verjuice is the sour (green) juice extracted from crab apples or unripe grapes.
The fruit was beautiful and we only removed 1% of leaves, unripe grapes or dried grapes.
Think about unripe fruit versus ripe fruit.
But nature is still unripe; the image is an eternal archetype, a part of the unknown holy world.
Walnut catsup embodies the medicinal virtues of the unripe nuts.
She is looking for ripe, red cherries, in among the unripe olive green colored fruit.
The study reports that it proved " a simple and effective method of inducing labor in post-term women with an unripe cervix.
Some producers panicked and have made wines which have unripe tannins.
Usually the pulp of a relatively unripe fruit is chosen, mashed, and placed thickly over the wound on a daily basis.
Black pepper is a seasoning produced from the fermented, dried, unripe red berries of the plant Piper nigrum.
Unripe green tomatoes can contain glycoalkaloids, which are natural toxins that can irritate the gastrointestinal tract.
The flowers are small, purple and white, and the unripe berries are of the same tints.
Unripe seeds do not have all the things they need to grow.