unripe
IPA: ʌnrˈaɪp
adjective
- Not ripe.
- Developing too early; premature.
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Examples of "unripe" in Sentences
- An unripe melon would be greenish white.
- The complaint here is disruptive and unripe.
- Skin color dark green and glazy when unripe.
- Definitely do not refrigerate an unripe avocado.
- Cucumbers are mainly eaten in the unripe green form.
- My kerchief filled with unripe clusters of prudence.
- Both ripe and unripe bananas are used for this variant.
- The fruit is edible, but the unripe fruit is astringent.
- Orange bitters are made from the rinds of unripe oranges.
- If the crop is harvested too early, the pods will be unripe.
- By the time you finish the ripe stuff, the unripe is ready to go, and nothing goes bad.
- It is generally the result of eating indigestible articles of food, such as unripe fruit or uncooked vegetables.
- Resistant starch occurs naturally in foods such as unripe bananas and cooked and cooled potatoes, but commercially produced RS ingredients have started to appear on the market.
- DIARRHEA, CHOLERA MORBUS, ETC., are often caused by eating indigestible or tainted food, such as unripe or decaying fruit, or stale vegetables; or by drinking impure water or poisoned milk (see p. 321).
- This was shown by their not disliking rhubarb mixed with a little sugar and milk, which is to us abominably nauseous; and in their strong taste for the sourest and most austere fruits, such as unripe gooseberries and crabapples.
- They may be brought on by exposure to cold and wet, or by improper and indigestible articles of food, such as unripe fruits, salads, pastries, and, in fact, anything which interferes with the normal operations of the digestive apparatus.
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