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 →

2) Unripe fruit is often hard and sour. tree →

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 →
• She picked only the ripe apples and left 5 unripe ones. tree →
• A third of the bananas are unripe. tree →
• How many are not unripe? tree →
• Unripe strawberries are white or green. tree →
• Put unripe pears in a paper bag to ripen them. tree →
• Don't eat unripe plums; they are sour. tree →
• The persimmon is as hard as stone when it is unripe. tree →

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.
• He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

Trees and pragmatics

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