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 →

2) Being fully developed or ready: "the ripeness of time". tree →

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 →
• The strawberries were picked at full ripeness. tree →
• You can tell the ripeness of a banana by its colour. tree →
• The farmer waited for the wheat to reach ripeness. tree →
• The sweet smell showed the melon's ripeness. tree →
• In science we recorded the ripeness of pears each day. tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ripeness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.